Github user marmbrus commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/9658#issuecomment-157461363 > But it doesn't cover nested fields, e.g. an array field of JSON/BSON elements. That is an unfortunate limitation of our metadata, but it does seem like it could be worked around. Though that said this is a minor concern. > "support for reading these types as strings" I'm just saying thats what this patch does. It just reads them in as a text/binary string of opaque bytes.
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