Github user marmbrus commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1346#discussion_r14903645 --- Diff: sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/ScalaReflection.scala --- @@ -85,6 +85,26 @@ object ScalaReflection { case t if t <:< definitions.BooleanTpe => Schema(BooleanType, nullable = false) } + def typeOfObject: PartialFunction[Any, DataType] = { + // The data type can be determined without ambiguity. + case obj: BooleanType.JvmType => BooleanType + case obj: BinaryType.JvmType => BinaryType + case obj: StringType.JvmType => StringType + case obj: ByteType.JvmType => ByteType + case obj: ShortType.JvmType => ShortType + case obj: IntegerType.JvmType => IntegerType + case obj: LongType.JvmType => LongType + case obj: FloatType.JvmType => FloatType + case obj: DoubleType.JvmType => DoubleType + case obj: DecimalType.JvmType => DecimalType + case obj: TimestampType.JvmType => TimestampType + case null => NullType + // For other cases, there is no obvious mapping from the type of the given object to a --- End diff -- Perhaps this should go in scaladoc for this partial function.
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