gatorsmile 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_r248070367
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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:
For example, `limit` can be pushed down by our Spark SQL optimizer in
theory, but I have not checked whether we can do it now. If not, we can improve
it.
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