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Assaf Mendelson commented on SPARK-17333:
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Originally when I suggested this, I envisioned adding something like
[this|https://github.com/assafmendelson/ExamplePysparkAnnotation] to spark
itself (allowing people to simply link their IDE to the code).
Following [this
thread|http://apache-spark-developers-list.1001551.n3.nabble.com/PYTHON-PySpark-typing-hints-td21560.html],
there is already a mature tool [here|https://github.com/zero323/pyspark-stubs]
and a presentation on it
[herehttps://speakerdeck.com/marcobonzanini/static-type-analysis-for-robust-data-products-at-pydata-london-2017]
> Make pyspark interface friendly with static analysis
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: SPARK-17333
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-17333
> Project: Spark
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: PySpark
> Reporter: Assaf Mendelson
> Priority: Trivial
>
> Static analysis tools such as those common to IDE for auto completion and
> error marking, tend to have poor results with pyspark.
> This is cause by two separate issues:
> The first is that many elements are created programmatically such as the max
> function in pyspark.sql.functions.
> The second is that we tend to use pyspark in a functional manner, meaning
> that we chain many actions (e.g. df.filter().groupby().agg()....) and since
> python has no type information this can become difficult to understand.
> I would suggest changing the interface to improve it.
> The way I see it we can either change the interface or provide interface
> enhancements.
> Changing the interface means defining (when possible) all functions directly,
> i.e. instead of having a __functions__ dictionary in pyspark.sql.functions.py
> and then generating the functions programmatically by using _create_function,
> create the function directly.
> def max(col):
> """
> docstring
> """
> _create_function(max,"docstring")
> Second we can add type indications to all functions as defined in pep 484 or
> pycharm's legacy type hinting
> (https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/2016.1/type-hinting-in-pycharm.html#legacy).
> So for example max might look like this:
> def max(col):
> """
> does a max.
> :type col: Column
> :rtype Column
> """
> This would provide a wide range of support as these types of hints, while old
> are pretty common.
> A second option is to use PEP 3107 to define interfaces (pyi files)
> in this case we might have a functions.pyi file which would contain something
> like:
> def max(col: Column) -> Column:
> """
> Aggregate function: returns the maximum value of the expression in a
> group.
> """
> ...
> This has the advantage of easier to understand types and not touching the
> code (only supported code) but has the disadvantage of being separately
> managed (i.e. greater chance of doing a mistake) and the fact that some
> configuration would be needed in the IDE/static analysis tool instead of
> working out of the box.
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