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Nathan Howell commented on SPARK-18352: --------------------------------------- Do you have any ideas how to support this? {{DataFrameReader.schema}} currently takes a {{StructType}} and the existing row level json reader flattens arrays out to support this restriction. > Parse normal, multi-line JSON files (not just JSON Lines) > --------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: SPARK-18352 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-18352 > Project: Spark > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: SQL > Reporter: Reynold Xin > > Spark currently can only parse JSON files that are JSON lines, i.e. each > record has an entire line and records are separated by new line. In reality, > a lot of users want to use Spark to parse actual JSON files, and are > surprised to learn that it doesn't do that. > We can introduce a new mode (wholeJsonFile?) in which we don't split the > files, and rather stream through them to parse the JSON files. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@spark.apache.org