Jingyuan Wang created SPARK-30288:
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             Summary: Failed to write valid Parquet files when column names 
contains special characters like spaces
                 Key: SPARK-30288
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-30288
             Project: Spark
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: SQL
    Affects Versions: 2.4.3
            Reporter: Jingyuan Wang



When I tried to write Parquet files using PySpark with columns containing some 
special characters in their names, it threw the following exception:

{code}
org.apache.spark.sql.AnalysisException: Attribute name "col 1" contains invalid 
character(s) among " ,;{}()\n\t=". Please use alias to rename it.;
        at 
org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.parquet.ParquetSchemaConverter$.checkConversionRequirement(ParquetSchemaConverter.scala:583)
        at 
org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.parquet.ParquetSchemaConverter$.checkFieldName(ParquetSchemaConverter.scala:570)
        at 
org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.parquet.ParquetWriteSupport$$anonfun$setSchema$2.apply(ParquetWriteSupport.scala:444)
        at 
org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.parquet.ParquetWriteSupport$$anonfun$setSchema$2.apply(ParquetWriteSupport.scala:444)
        at scala.collection.immutable.List.foreach(List.scala:392)
        at 
org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.parquet.ParquetWriteSupport$.setSchema(ParquetWriteSupport.scala:444)
        at 
org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.parquet.ParquetFileFormat.prepareWrite(ParquetFileFormat.scala:111)
        at 
org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.FileFormatWriter$.write(FileFormatWriter.scala:103)
        at 
org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.InsertIntoHadoopFsRelationCommand.run(InsertIntoHadoopFsRelationCommand.scala:159)
        at 
org.apache.spark.sql.execution.command.DataWritingCommandExec.sideEffectResult$lzycompute(commands.scala:104)
        at 
org.apache.spark.sql.execution.command.DataWritingCommandExec.sideEffectResult(commands.scala:102)
        at 
org.apache.spark.sql.execution.command.DataWritingCommandExec.doExecute(commands.scala:122)
        at 
org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SparkPlan$$anonfun$execute$1.apply(SparkPlan.scala:131)
        at 
org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SparkPlan$$anonfun$execute$1.apply(SparkPlan.scala:127)
        at 
org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SparkPlan$$anonfun$executeQuery$1.apply(SparkPlan.scala:155)
        at 
org.apache.spark.rdd.RDDOperationScope$.withScope(RDDOperationScope.scala:151)
        at 
org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SparkPlan.executeQuery(SparkPlan.scala:152)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SparkPlan.execute(SparkPlan.scala:127)
        at 
org.apache.spark.sql.execution.QueryExecution.toRdd$lzycompute(QueryExecution.scala:80)
        at 
org.apache.spark.sql.execution.QueryExecution.toRdd(QueryExecution.scala:80)
        at 
org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrameWriter$$anonfun$runCommand$1.apply(DataFrameWriter.scala:676)
        at 
org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrameWriter$$anonfun$runCommand$1.apply(DataFrameWriter.scala:676)
        at 
org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SQLExecution$$anonfun$withNewExecutionId$1.apply(SQLExecution.scala:78)
        at 
org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SQLExecution$.withSQLConfPropagated(SQLExecution.scala:125)
        at 
org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SQLExecution$.withNewExecutionId(SQLExecution.scala:73)
        at 
org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrameWriter.runCommand(DataFrameWriter.scala:676)
        at 
org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrameWriter.saveToV1Source(DataFrameWriter.scala:285)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrameWriter.save(DataFrameWriter.scala:271)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrameWriter.save(DataFrameWriter.scala:229)
        at 
org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrameWriter.parquet(DataFrameWriter.scala:566)
        at 
java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at 
java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
        at 
java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:566)
        at py4j.reflection.MethodInvoker.invoke(MethodInvoker.java:244)
        at py4j.reflection.ReflectionEngine.invoke(ReflectionEngine.java:357)
        at py4j.Gateway.invoke(Gateway.java:282)
        at py4j.commands.AbstractCommand.invokeMethod(AbstractCommand.java:132)
        at py4j.commands.CallCommand.execute(CallCommand.java:79)
        at py4j.GatewayConnection.run(GatewayConnection.java:238)
        at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:834)
{code}

However, it is supported by Pandas for both reading and writing. This validity 
check of column names seems to be outdated and should be removed. 

{code}
>>> import pandas as pd
>>> df = pd.DataFrame(data={'col(1)': [1, 2], 'col 2': [3, 4]})
>>> df.to_parquet('special_columns.parquet')
>>> df_written = pd.read_parquet('special_columns.parquet')
>>> df_written
   col(1)  col 2
0       1      3
1       2      4
{code}





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