You are grabbing the singleton, not the class. You need to specify the precision (i.e. DecimalType.Unlimited or DecimalType(precision, scale))
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Manoj Samel <manojsamelt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Spark 1.2 > > While building schemaRDD using StructType > > xxx = new StructField("credit_amount", DecimalType, true) gives error > "type mismatch; found : > org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.types.DecimalType.type required: > org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.types.DataType" > > From > https://spark.apache.org/docs/1.2.0/api/scala/index.html#org.apache.spark.sql.package, > it seems DecimalType = sql.catalyst.types.DecimalType is separate from > DataType = sql.catalyst.types.DataType > > Not sure why that is the case? How does one uses Decimal and other types > in StructField? > > Thanks, > > > >