Harsh Motwani created SPARK-50284:
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Summary: Create easy API in Python to construct Variants
Key: SPARK-50284
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-50284
Project: Spark
Issue Type: Task
Components: PySpark
Affects Versions: 4.0.0
Reporter: Harsh Motwani
Currently, `VariantVal`'s cannot be created in Python. The `VariantVal` type
can only be used to read Variants from existing DataFrames. In order to create
Variants, one can only hard-code byte values of Variants (like
`VariantVal(bytes([12, i]), bytes([1, 0, 0]))`) which is not useful at all.
There should be some easy way for Python developers to create variants from
JSON strings/potentially other ways, for example a `parse_json` API
implementation in Python.
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