Github user ilganeli commented on a diff in the pull request:

    https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/6686#discussion_r32656127
  
    --- Diff: python/pyspark/sql/types.py ---
    @@ -368,8 +367,49 @@ def __init__(self, fields):
             >>> struct1 == struct2
             False
             """
    -        assert all(isinstance(f, DataType) for f in fields), "fields 
should be a list of DataType"
    -        self.fields = fields
    +        if not fields:
    +            self.fields = []
    +        else:
    +            self.fields = fields
    +            assert all(isinstance(f, StructField) for f in fields),\
    +                "fields should be a list of StructField"
    +
    +    def add(self, name_or_struct_field, data_type=NullType(), 
nullable=True, metadata=None):
    --- End diff --
    
    Davies - totally agree. This was changed specifically to consolidate to a 
single method as suggested by Reynold. I initially had separate add methods - 
one which accepted a StructField and one which accepted the 4 parameters, the 
first two of which were defined.
    
    What would you suggest? My preference is to break this out into two methods 
for clarity and to avoid the problem you mention.
    
    
    
    Thank you,
    Ilya Ganelin
    
    
    
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Davies Liu [notificati...@github.com<mailto:notificati...@github.com>]
    Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 01:18 PM Eastern Standard Time
    To: apache/spark
    Cc: Ganelin, Ilya
    Subject: Re: [spark] [SPARK-8056][SQL] Design an easier way to construct 
schema for both Scala and Python (#6686)
    
    
    In 
python/pyspark/sql/types.py<https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/6686#discussion_r32650869>:
    
    
    > @@ -368,8 +367,49 @@ def __init__(self, fields):
    >          >>> struct1 == struct2
    >          False
    >          """
    > -        assert all(isinstance(f, DataType) for f in fields), "fields 
should be a list of DataType"
    > -        self.fields = fields
    > +        if not fields:
    > +            self.fields = []
    > +        else:
    > +            self.fields = fields
    > +            assert all(isinstance(f, StructField) for f in fields),\
    > +                "fields should be a list of StructField"
    > +
    > +    def add(self, name_or_struct_field, data_type=NullType(), 
nullable=True, metadata=None):
    
    
    What's the use cases that we should have StructType without specifying the 
dataType of each column?
    
    In createDataFrame, if a schema of StructType is provided, it will not try 
to infer the data types, so it does not work with StructType with NoneType in 
it.
    
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