> > Maybe; I’m not sure just yet. Basically, I’m looking for something > functionally equivalent to this: > > sqlContext.jsonRDD(RDD[dict].map(lambda x: json.dumps(x))) > > In other words, given an RDD of JSON-serializable Python dictionaries, I > want to be able to infer a schema that is guaranteed to cover the entire > data set. With semi-structured data, it is rarely useful to infer schema by > inspecting just one element. > > Does that sound like something we want to support? > Yes, I think that would be good. I'd open a JIRA.
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