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Joseph K. Bradley updated SPARK-20528:
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    Description: 
It would be very useful to have a binary data reader/writer for DataFrames, 
presumably called via {{spark.read.binaryFiles}}, etc.

Currently, going through RDDs is annoying since it requires different code 
paths for Scala vs Python:

Scala:
{code}
val binaryFilesRDD = sc.binaryFiles("mypath")
val binaryFilesDF = spark.createDataFrame(binaryFilesRDD)
{code}

Python:
{code}
binaryFilesRDD = sc.binaryFiles("mypath")
binaryFilesRDD_recast = binaryFilesRDD.map(lambda x: (x[0], bytearray(x[1])))
binaryFilesDF = spark.createDataFrame(binaryFilesRDD_recast)
{code}

This is because Scala and Python {{sc.binaryFiles}} return different types, 
which makes sense in RDD land but not DataFrame land.

My motivation here is working with images in Spark.

  was:
It would be very useful to have a binary data reader/writer for DataFrames, 
presumably called via {{spark.read.binaryFiles}}, etc.

Currently, going through RDDs is annoying since it requires different code 
paths for Scala vs Python:

Scala:
{code}
val binaryFilesRDD = sc.binaryFiles("mypath")
val binaryFilesDF = spark.createDataFrame(binaryFilesRDD)
{code}

Python:
{code}
binaryFilesRDD = sc.binaryFiles("mypath")
binaryFilesRDD_recast = binaryFilesRDD.map(lambda x: (x[0], bytearray(x[1])))
binaryFilesDF = spark.createDataFrame(binaryFilesRDD_recast)
{code}

This is because Scala and Python {{sc.binaryFiles}} return different types, 
which makes sense in RDD land but not DataFrame land.


> Add BinaryFileReader and Writer for DataFrames
> ----------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SPARK-20528
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-20528
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: SQL
>    Affects Versions: 2.2.0
>            Reporter: Joseph K. Bradley
>
> It would be very useful to have a binary data reader/writer for DataFrames, 
> presumably called via {{spark.read.binaryFiles}}, etc.
> Currently, going through RDDs is annoying since it requires different code 
> paths for Scala vs Python:
> Scala:
> {code}
> val binaryFilesRDD = sc.binaryFiles("mypath")
> val binaryFilesDF = spark.createDataFrame(binaryFilesRDD)
> {code}
> Python:
> {code}
> binaryFilesRDD = sc.binaryFiles("mypath")
> binaryFilesRDD_recast = binaryFilesRDD.map(lambda x: (x[0], bytearray(x[1])))
> binaryFilesDF = spark.createDataFrame(binaryFilesRDD_recast)
> {code}
> This is because Scala and Python {{sc.binaryFiles}} return different types, 
> which makes sense in RDD land but not DataFrame land.
> My motivation here is working with images in Spark.



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