Github user rxin commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/4585#discussion_r24713046
--- Diff: sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/Column.scala ---
@@ -576,6 +578,25 @@ trait Column extends DataFrame {
override def as(alias: Symbol): Column = exprToColumn(Alias(expr,
alias.name)())
/**
+ * (Scala-specific) Explodes the column to zero or more rows by the
provided function.
+ * {{{
+ * val df = Seq(Tuple1("a b c"), Tuple1("d e")).toDataFrame("words")
+ * val col = df("words")
+ * col.explode {words: String => words.split(" ")}
+ * }}}
+ */
+ def explode[A, B : TypeTag](f: A => TraversableOnce[B]): Column = {
+ val dataType = ScalaReflection.schemaFor[B].dataType
+ val attributes = AttributeReference(schema.fields(0).name, dataType)()
:: Nil
+ def rowFunction(row: Row) = {
+ f(row(0).asInstanceOf[A]).map(o =>
Row(ScalaReflection.convertToCatalyst(o, dataType)))
+ }
+ val generator = UserDefinedGenerator(attributes, rowFunction, expr ::
Nil)
+ val plan = Generate(generator, join = true, outer = false, None,
logicalPlan)
+ Column(sqlContext, Project(attributes, plan), attributes(0))
--- End diff --
i think this will break a lot of things because attributes(0) is different
from the expression in project
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