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Hyukjin Kwon commented on SPARK-22351:
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While this was possible in Spark 1.6 it's not longer the case in Spark 2.x.
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Would you mind sharing the codes? I think I can't reproduce this in 1.6.



> Support user-created custom Encoders for Datasets
> -------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SPARK-22351
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-22351
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: SQL
>    Affects Versions: 2.2.0
>            Reporter: Adamos Loizou
>            Priority: Minor
>
> It would be very helpful if we could easily support creating custom encoders 
> for classes in Spark SQL.
> This is to allow a user to properly define a business model using types of 
> their choice. They can then map them to Spark SQL types without being forced 
> to pollute their model with the built-in mappable types (e.g. 
> {{java.sql.Timestamp}}).
> Specifically in our case, we tend to use either the Java 8 time API or the 
> joda time API for dates instead of {{java.sql.Timestamp}} whose API is quite 
> limited compared to the others.
> Ideally we would like to be able to have a dataset of such a class:
> {code:java}
> case class Person(name: String, dateOfBirth: org.joda.time.LocalDate)
> implicit def localDateTimeEncoder: Encoder[LocalDate] = ??? // we define 
> something that maps to Spark SQL TimestampType
> ...
> // read csv and map it to model
> val people:Dataset[Person] = spark.read.csv("/my/path/file.csv").as[Person]
> {code}
> While this was possible in Spark 1.6 it's not longer the case in Spark 2.x.
> It's also not straight forward as to how to support that using an 
> {{ExpressionEncoder}} (any tips would be much appreciated)
> Thanks.



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