You can use the Dataset API -- it should solve this issue for case classes that are not very complex.
On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 12:20 PM, Deepak Sharma <deepakmc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > I am saving RDD[Example] in hdfs from spark program , where Example is > case class. > Now when i am trying to read it back , it returns RDD[String] with the > content as below: > *Example(1,name,value)* > > The workaround can be to write as a string in hdfs and read it back as > string and perform further processing.This way the case class name wouldn't > appear at all in the file being written in hdfs. > But i am keen to know if we can read the data directly in Spark if the > RDD[Case_Class] is written to hdfs? > > -- > Thanks > Deepak >
