There is a JIRA for adding this: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-4228
Your described approach sounds reasonable. On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 5:10 PM, Tobias Pfeiffer <t...@preferred.jp> wrote: > Akshat > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 4:12 AM, Akshat Aranya <aara...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Does there exist a way to serialize Row objects to JSON. >> > > I can't think of any other way than the one you proposed. A Row is more > or less an Array[Object], so you need to read JSON key and data type from > the schema. > > Tobias > > >