Thanks guys both those answers are really helpful. Really appreciate this.
On 25 Feb 2016 12:05 a.m., "Michał Zieliński" <zielinski.mich...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi Anthony,
>
> Hopefully that's what you wanted :)
>
> case class Example(id:String, myMap: Map[String,Int])
>> val myDF = sqlContext.createDataFrame(
>> Seq(
>> Example("a02d1fa5d87dce6a7", Map("Vans" -> 1, "Versace" ->2))
>> )
>> )
>> myDF.
>> explode("myMap","tempSeq")((x: Map[String,Int]) => x.toSeq).
>> withColumn("brand_key",col("tempSeq")("_1")).
>> withColumn("brand_count",col("tempSeq")("_2")).
>> drop("tempSeq").
>> show(false)
>
>
> This gives us:
>
> +-----------------+----------------------------+---------+-----------+
>> |id |myMap |brand_key|brand_count|
>> +-----------------+----------------------------+---------+-----------+
>> |a02d1fa5d87dce6a7|Map(Vans -> 1, Versace -> 2)|Vans |1 |
>> |a02d1fa5d87dce6a7|Map(Vans -> 1, Versace -> 2)|Versace |2 |
>> +-----------------+----------------------------+---------+-----------+
>
>
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
>
> On 25 February 2016 at 00:06, Anthony Brew <atb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I have a Dataframe containing a column with a map Map[A,B] with
>> multiple values. I want to explode the key,value pairs in the map into a
>> new column, actually planing to create 2 new cols.
>>
>> My plan had been
>>
>> - explode "input": Map[K,V] to "temp":Iterable[Map[K,V]]
>> - new col temp to temp.key
>> - new col temp to temp.value
>> - drop temp
>>
>> But I am failing at the first hurdle.
>>
>> For example my data looks a bit like like....
>>
>> scala> test.show()
>> +----------------------------+------------------------------------------+
>> | id | brand
>> |
>> +----------------------------+------------------------------------------+
>> |a02d1fa5d87dce6a7...|Map(Vans -> 1, Versace ->2, ...|
>>
>>
>> but I want to get to
>>
>> scala> test.show()
>> +-----------------------------+------------------------------------------+
>> | id | brand_key | brand_count |
>> +-----------------------------+------------------------------------------+
>> | a02d1fa5d87dce6a7...| Vans | 1 |
>> | a02d1fa5d87dce6a7...| Versace | 2 |
>>
>>
>> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Anthony
>>
>>
>>
>
