Github user rxin commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1041#discussion_r13782689
--- Diff: sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/SQLContext.scala ---
@@ -298,19 +298,27 @@ class SQLContext(@transient val sparkContext:
SparkContext)
/**
* Peek at the first row of the RDD and infer its schema.
- * TODO: We only support primitive types, add support for nested types.
*/
private[sql] def inferSchema(rdd: RDD[Map[String, _]]): SchemaRDD = {
+ import scala.collection.JavaConversions._
+ def typeFor(obj: Any): DataType = obj match {
--- End diff --
we gotta have a few of similar implementations already for this. I think
@yhuai was consolidating them. @yhuai can you comment on whether this would
still be necessary after your consolidation?
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