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Jianshi Huang commented on SPARK-4782:
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Thanks Luca for the clever fix!

I also noticed that the schema inference in JsonRDD is too JSON specific. As 
JSON's datatype is quite limited.

Jianshi

> Add inferSchema support for RDD[Map[String, Any]]
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>
>                 Key: SPARK-4782
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-4782
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: SQL
>            Reporter: Jianshi Huang
>            Priority: Minor
>
> The best way to convert RDD[Map[String, Any]] to SchemaRDD currently seems to 
> be converting each Map to JSON String first and use JsonRDD.inferSchema on it.
> It's very inefficient.
> Instead of JsonRDD, RDD[Map[String, Any]] is a better common denominator for 
> Schemaless data as adding Map like interface to any serialization format is 
> easy.
> So please add inferSchema support to RDD[Map[String, Any]]. *Then for any new 
> serialization format we want to support, we just need to add a Map interface 
> wrapper to it*
> Jianshi



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