Github user rxin commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/354#discussion_r11597602
--- Diff: sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/SQLContext.scala ---
@@ -88,6 +96,26 @@ class SQLContext(@transient val sparkContext:
SparkContext)
def parquetFile(path: String): SchemaRDD =
new SchemaRDD(this, parquet.ParquetRelation(path))
+ /**
+ * :: Experimental ::
+ *
+ * Creates an empty parquet file with the schema of class `A`, which can
be registered as a table.
+ * This registered table can be used as the target of future
`insertInto` operations.
--- End diff --
It'd be better to have some inlien scaladoc example to illustrate how this
can be used. e.g. have a line that creates the parquet file, followed by one or
two insert into sql statements.
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