This is possibly a bug introduced in 2.3.0. I have this code that I run in spark-shell
spark.readStream.format("socket").option("host", "localhost").option("port", 9999).load().toDF("employeeId"). | withColumn("swipeTime", expr("current_timestamp()")). | createTempView("employeeSwipe") spark.table("employeeSwipe").writeStream.outputMode("append").format("console").start I run it in 2.2.1 and I get this scala> spark.readStream.format("socket").option("host", "localhost").option("port", 9999).load().toDF("employeeId"). | withColumn("swipeTime", expr("current_timestamp()")). | createTempView("employeeSwipe") 18/06/04 18:20:27 WARN ObjectStore: Failed to get database global_temp, returning NoSuchObjectException 18/06/04 18:20:28 WARN TextSocketSourceProvider: The socket source should not be used for production applications! It does not support recovery. scala> spark.table("employeeSwipe").writeStream.outputMode("append").format("console").start res1: org.apache.spark.sql.streaming.StreamingQuery = org.apache.spark.sql.execution.streaming.StreamingQueryWrapper@24489d12 scala> ------------------------------------------- Batch: 0 ------------------------------------------- +----------+--------------------+ |employeeId| swipeTime| +----------+--------------------+ | 1|2018-06-04 18:21:...| +----------+--------------------+ I run the same in 2.3.0, and I get this scala> spark.readStream.format("socket").option("host", "localhost").option("port", 9999).load().toDF("employeeId"). | | withColumn("swipeTime", expr("current_timestamp()")). | | createTempView("employeeSwipe") 2018-06-04 18:37:12 WARN TextSocketSourceProvider:66 - The socket source should not be used for production applications! It does not support recovery. 2018-06-04 18:37:15 WARN ObjectStore:568 - Failed to get database global_temp, returning NoSuchObjectException scala> scala> spark.table("employeeSwipe").writeStream.outputMode("append").format("console").start res1: org.apache.spark.sql.streaming.StreamingQuery = org.apache.spark.sql.execution.streaming.StreamingQueryWrapper@5a503cf0 scala> 2018-06-04 18:37:28 ERROR MicroBatchExecution:91 - Query [id = 10f792b2-89fd-4d98-b2e7-f7531da385e4, runId = 3b131ecf-a622-4b54-9295-ff06e9fc2566] terminated with error org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.analysis.UnresolvedException: Invalid call to dataType on unresolved object, tree: 'swipeTime at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.analysis.UnresolvedAttribute.dataType(unresolved.scala:105) at org.apache.spark.sql.types.StructType$$anonfun$fromAttributes$1.apply(StructType.scala:435) at org.apache.spark.sql.types.StructType$$anonfun$fromAttributes$1.apply(StructType.scala:435) at scala.collection.TraversableLike$$anonfun$map$1.apply(TraversableLike.scala:234) at scala.collection.TraversableLike$$anonfun$map$1.apply(TraversableLike.scala:234) at scala.collection.immutable.List.foreach(List.scala:381) at scala.collection.TraversableLike$class.map(TraversableLike.scala:234) at scala.collection.immutable.List.map(List.scala:285) at org.apache.spark.sql.types.StructType$.fromAttributes(StructType.scala:435) at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.plans.QueryPlan.schema$lzycompute(QueryPlan.scala:157) at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.plans.QueryPlan.schema(QueryPlan.scala:157) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.streaming.MicroBatchExecution.org$apache$spark$sql$execution$streaming$MicroBatchExecution$$runBatch(MicroBatchExecution.scala:447) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.streaming.MicroBatchExecution$$anonfun$runActivatedStream$1$$anonfun$apply$mcZ$sp$1.apply$mcV$sp(MicroBatchExecution.scala:133) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.streaming.MicroBatchExecution$$anonfun$runActivatedStream$1$$anonfun$apply$mcZ$sp$1.apply(MicroBatchExecution.scala:121) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.streaming.MicroBatchExecution$$anonfun$runActivatedStream$1$$anonfun$apply$mcZ$sp$1.apply(MicroBatchExecution.scala:121) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.streaming.ProgressReporter$class.reportTimeTaken(ProgressReporter.scala:271) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.streaming.StreamExecution.reportTimeTaken(StreamExecution.scala:58) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.streaming.MicroBatchExecution$$anonfun$runActivatedStream$1.apply$mcZ$sp(MicroBatchExecution.scala:121) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.streaming.ProcessingTimeExecutor.execute(TriggerExecutor.scala:56) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.streaming.MicroBatchExecution.runActivatedStream(MicroBatchExecution.scala:117) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.streaming.StreamExecution.org$apache$spark$sql$execution$streaming$StreamExecution$$runStream(StreamExecution.scala:279) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.streaming.StreamExecution$$anon$1.run(StreamExecution.scala:189) ________________________________________________________ The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and/or proprietary to Capital One and/or its affiliates and may only be used solely in performance of work or services for Capital One. 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