HyukjinKwon commented on a change in pull request #23534: [SPARK-26610][PYTHON] 
Fix inconsistency between toJSON Method in Python and Scala.
URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/23534#discussion_r247468615
 
 

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 File path: python/pyspark/sql/dataframe.py
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 @@ -109,15 +109,18 @@ def stat(self):
     @ignore_unicode_prefix
     @since(1.3)
     def toJSON(self, use_unicode=True):
-        """Converts a :class:`DataFrame` into a :class:`RDD` of string.
+        """Converts a :class:`DataFrame` into a :class:`DataFrame` of JSON 
string.
 
-        Each row is turned into a JSON document as one element in the returned 
RDD.
+        Each row is turned into a JSON document as one element in the returned 
DataFrame.
 
         >>> df.toJSON().first()
-        u'{"age":2,"name":"Alice"}'
+        Row(value=u'{"age":2,"name":"Alice"}')
         """
-        rdd = self._jdf.toJSON()
-        return RDD(rdd.toJavaRDD(), self._sc, UTF8Deserializer(use_unicode))
+        jdf = self._jdf.toJSON()
+        if self.sql_ctx._conf.pysparkDataFrameToJSONShouldReturnDataFrame():
+            return DataFrame(jdf, self.sql_ctx)
+        else:
+            return RDD(jdf.toJavaRDD(), self._sc, 
UTF8Deserializer(use_unicode))
 
 Review comment:
   Also, in that way, we should fix `DataFrameReader.csv` or 
`DataFrameReader.json` to accept `DataFrame` because I believe the same 
argument can be there. It is also going to break one usecase, 
`spark.read.json(spark.range(1).toJSON())` without fixing 
`DataFrameReader.json`.

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