somehow the schema check is here https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/ScalaReflection.scala#L697-L750
supposedly beans are to be handled, but it's not clear to me which line handles the type of beans. if that's clear, I could probably annotate my bean class properly On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 11:19 AM, Michael Armbrust <mich...@databricks.com> wrote: > I think you are supposed to set BeanProperty on a var as they do here > <https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/f830bb9170f6b853565d9dd30ca7418b93a54fe3/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/tree/configuration/Strategy.scala#L71-L83>. > If you are using scala though I'd consider using the case class encoders. > > On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 12:21 AM, Yang <teddyyyy...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'm trying to use Encoders.bean() to create an encoder for my custom >> class, but it fails complaining about can't find the schema: >> >> >> class Person4 { @scala.beans.BeanProperty def setX(x:Int): Unit = {} >> @scala.beans.BeanProperty def getX():Int = {1} } val personEncoder = >> Encoders.bean[Person4](classOf[Person4]) scala> val person_rdd =sc. >> parallelize(Array( (new Person4(), 1), (new Person4(), 2) )) person_rdd: >> org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD[(Person4, Int)] = ParallelCollectionRDD[1] at >> parallelize at <con sole>:31 scala> sqlcontext.createDataFrame(person_rdd >> ) java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: Schema for type Person4 is not >> supported at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.ScalaReflection$.schemaFor(Sca >> laReflection.scala:716) at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst. >> ScalaReflection$$anonfun$schemaFor$2.apply(ScalaReflection.scala:71 2) >> at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.ScalaReflection$$anonfun$schemaFor$2. >> apply(ScalaReflection.scala:71 1) at scala.collection.TraversableLi >> ke$$anonfun$map$1.apply(TraversableLike.scala:234) at >> >> >> but if u look at the encoder's schema, it does know it: >> but the system does seem to understand the schema for "Person4": >> >> >> scala> personEncoder.schema >> res38: org.apache.spark.sql.types.StructType = >> StructType(StructField(x,IntegerType,false)) >> >> >
