Github user viirya commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/18875#discussion_r131936404
--- Diff:
sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/expressions/jsonExpressions.scala
---
@@ -659,13 +660,19 @@ case class StructsToJson(
(arr: Any) =>
gen.write(arr.asInstanceOf[ArrayData])
getAndReset()
+ case MapType(_: DataType, _: StructType, _: Boolean) =>
+ (map: Any) =>
+ val mapType = child.dataType.asInstanceOf[MapType]
+ gen.write(map.asInstanceOf[MapData], mapType)
+ getAndReset()
}
}
override def dataType: DataType = StringType
override def checkInputDataTypes(): TypeCheckResult = child.dataType
match {
- case _: StructType | ArrayType(_: StructType, _) =>
+ case _: StructType | ArrayType(_: StructType, _) |
+ MapType(_: DataType, _: StructType, _: Boolean) =>
--- End diff --
I think this depends how `MapType` is proposed to use here. If we treat a
map like a struct similarly, we can support arbitrary map type. Then we need to
explicitly clarify it in expression description.
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