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Herman van Hovell edited comment on SPARK-13721 at 9/2/16 8:40 PM:
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Could you explain what this would looks like? I am asking because adding 
{{outer}} to {{explode()}} is a bit weird, since outer is a property of the 
generate process and not of the generator.


was (Author: hvanhovell):
Could you explain what this would looks like? I am asking because adding 
{outer} to {explode()} is a bit weird, since outer is a property of the 
generate process and not of the generator.

> Add support for LATERAL VIEW OUTER explode()
> --------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SPARK-13721
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-13721
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: SQL
>            Reporter: Ian Hellstrom
>
> Hive supports the [LATERAL VIEW 
> OUTER|https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+LateralView#LanguageManualLateralView-OuterLateralViews]
>  syntax to make sure that when an array is empty, the content from the outer 
> table is still returned. 
> Within Spark, this is currently only possible within the HiveContext and 
> executing HiveQL statements. It would be nice if the standard explode() 
> DataFrame method allows the same. A possible signature would be: 
> {code:scala}
> explode[A, B](inputColumn: String, outputColumn: String, outer: Boolean = 
> false)
> {code}



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