Github user viirya commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/20666#discussion_r170498519 --- Diff: python/pyspark/sql/readwriter.py --- @@ -209,13 +209,15 @@ def json(self, path, schema=None, primitivesAsString=None, prefersDecimal=None, :param mode: allows a mode for dealing with corrupt records during parsing. If None is set, it uses the default value, ``PERMISSIVE``. - * ``PERMISSIVE`` : sets other fields to ``null`` when it meets a corrupted \ - record, and puts the malformed string into a field configured by \ - ``columnNameOfCorruptRecord``. To keep corrupt records, an user can set \ - a string type field named ``columnNameOfCorruptRecord`` in an user-defined \ - schema. If a schema does not have the field, it drops corrupt records during \ - parsing. When inferring a schema, it implicitly adds a \ - ``columnNameOfCorruptRecord`` field in an output schema. + * ``PERMISSIVE`` : when it meets a corrupted record, puts the malformed string \ + into a field configured by ``columnNameOfCorruptRecord``, and sets other \ + fields to ``null``. To keep corrupt records, an user can set a string type \ + field named ``columnNameOfCorruptRecord`` in an user-defined schema. If a \ + schema does not have the field, it drops corrupt records during parsing. \ + When inferring a schema, it implicitly adds a ``columnNameOfCorruptRecord`` \ --- End diff -- When users set a string type field named `columnNameOfCorruptRecord` in an user-defined schema, even no corrupted record, I think the field is still added. Or I misread this sentence?
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