Hey all, Forgot to attach the link to the overriding Schema through external package's discussion.
https://github.com/crealytics/spark-excel/pull/13 You can see my comment there too. Thanks, Aakash. On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 11:11 PM, Aakash Basu <aakash.spark....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am working on PySpark (*Python 3.6 and Spark 2.1.1*) and trying to > fetch data from an excel file using > *spark.read.format("com.crealytics.spark.excel")*, but it is inferring > double for a date type column. > > The detailed description is given here (the question I posted) - > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45713699/inferschema-using-spark-read- > formatcom-crealytics-spark-excel-is-inferring-d > > > Found it is a probable bug with the crealytics excel read package. > > Can somebody help me with a workaround for this? > > Thanks, > Aakash. >
