Yes, it's a bug, please file a JIRA.
On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Ali Bajwa <ali.ba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Friendly reminder on this one. Just wanted to get a confirmation that this
> is not by design before I logged a JIRA
>
> Thanks!
> Ali
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 9:53 AM, Ali Bajwa <ali.ba...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi experts,
>>
>> Trying to use the "slicing" functionality in strings as part of a Spark
>> program (PySpark) I get this error:
>>
>> **** Code ****
>>
>> import pandas as pd
>> from pyspark.sql import SQLContext
>> hc = SQLContext(sc)
>> A = pd.DataFrame({'Firstname': ['James', 'Ali', 'Daniel'], 'Lastname':
>> ['Jones', 'Bajwa', 'Day']})
>> a = hc.createDataFrame(A)
>> print A
>>
>> b = a.select(a.Firstname[:2])
>> print b.toPandas()
>> c = a.select(a.Lastname[2:])
>> print c.toPandas()
>>
>> Output:
>>
>> Firstname Lastname
>> 0 James Jones
>> 1 Ali Bajwa
>> 2 Daniel Day
>> SUBSTR(Firstname, 0, 2)
>> 0 Ja
>> 1 Al
>> 2 Da
>>
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Py4JError Traceback (most recent call
>> last)
>> <ipython-input-17-6ee5d7d069ce> in <module>()
>> 10 b = a.select(a.Firstname[:2])
>> 11 print b.toPandas()
>> ---> 12 c = a.select(a.Lastname[2:])
>> 13 print c.toPandas()
>>
>> /home/jupyter/spark-1.3.1/python/pyspark/sql/dataframe.pyc in substr(self,
>> startPos, length)
>> 1089 raise TypeError("Can not mix the type")
>> 1090 if isinstance(startPos, (int, long)):
>> -> 1091 jc = self._jc.substr(startPos, length)
>> 1092 elif isinstance(startPos, Column):
>> 1093 jc = self._jc.substr(startPos._jc, length._jc)
>>
>>
>> /home/jupyter/spark-1.3.1/python/lib/py4j-0.8.2.1-src.zip/py4j/java_gateway.py
>> in __call__(self, *args)
>> 536 answer = self.gateway_client.send_command(command)
>> 537 return_value = get_return_value(answer,
>> self.gateway_client,
>> --> 538 self.target_id, self.name)
>> 539
>> 540 for temp_arg in temp_args:
>>
>> /home/jupyter/spark-1.3.1/python/lib/py4j-0.8.2.1-src.zip/py4j/protocol.py
>> in get_return_value(answer, gateway_client, target_id, name)
>> 302 raise Py4JError(
>> 303 'An error occurred while calling {0}{1}{2}.
>> Trace:\n{3}\n'.
>> --> 304 format(target_id, '.', name, value))
>> 305 else:
>> 306 raise Py4JError(
>>
>> Py4JError: An error occurred while calling o1887.substr. Trace:
>> py4j.Py4JException: Method substr([class java.lang.Integer, class
>> java.lang.Long]) does not exist
>> at py4j.reflection.ReflectionEngine.getMethod(ReflectionEngine.java:333)
>> at py4j.reflection.ReflectionEngine.getMethod(ReflectionEngine.java:342)
>> at py4j.Gateway.invoke(Gateway.java:252)
>> at py4j.commands.AbstractCommand.invokeMethod(AbstractCommand.java:133)
>> at py4j.commands.CallCommand.execute(CallCommand.java:79)
>> at py4j.GatewayConnection.run(GatewayConnection.java:207)
>> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
>>
>> Looks like X[:2] works but X[2:] fails with the error above
>> Anyone else have this issue?
>>
>> Clearly I can use substr() to workaround this, but if this is a confirmed
>> bug we should open a JIRA.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ali
>
>
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