Github user aa8y commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/12708#discussion_r61789596 --- Diff: sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/Row.scala --- @@ -335,6 +358,19 @@ trait Row extends Serializable { def getAs[T](fieldName: String): T = getAs[T](fieldIndex(fieldName)) /** + * Returns the value of a given fieldName as a scala.util.Try object. + */ + def attempt[T](fieldName: String): Try[T] = Try(getAs[T](fieldIndex(fieldName))) --- End diff -- @marmbrus Why can't wrong type casts be a result of bad data? You can have a badly formatted timestamp or integer for which I would want a `None`.
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