What's the format you have in json file?

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 6:57 PM, Suraj Shetiya <surajshet...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In pyspark when if I read a json file using sqlcontext I find that the date
> field is not infered as date instead it is converted to string. And when I
> try to convert it to date using df.withColumn(df.DateCol.cast("timestamp"))
> it does not parse it successfuly and adds a null instead there. Should I
> use UDF to convert the date ? Is this expected behaviour (not throwing an
> error after failure to cast all fields)?
>
> --
> Regards,
> Suraj

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