Hi, If you can also format the condition file as a csv file similar to the main file, then you can join the two dataframes and select only required columns.
Best regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Sincères salutations M. Lohith Samaga From: Divya Gehlot [mailto:divya.htco...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 05, 2016 13.12 To: user @spark Subject: pass one dataframe column value to another dataframe filter expression + Spark 1.5 + scala Hi, I have two input datasets First input dataset like as below : year,make,model,comment,blank "2012","Tesla","S","No comment", 1997,Ford,E350,"Go get one now they are going fast", 2015,Chevy,Volt Second Input dataset : TagId,condition 1997_cars,year = 1997 and model = 'E350' 2012_cars,year=2012 and model ='S' 2015_cars ,year=2015 and model = 'Volt' Now my requirement is read first data set and based on the filtering condition in second dataset need to tag rows of first input dataset by introducing a new column TagId to first input data set so the expected should look like : year,make,model,comment,blank,TagId "2012","Tesla","S","No comment",2012_cars 1997,Ford,E350,"Go get one now they are going fast",1997_cars 2015,Chevy,Volt, ,2015_cars I tried like : val sqlContext = new SQLContext(sc) val carsSchema = StructType(Seq( StructField("year", IntegerType, true), StructField("make", StringType, true), StructField("model", StringType, true), StructField("comment", StringType, true), StructField("blank", StringType, true))) val carTagsSchema = StructType(Seq( StructField("TagId", StringType, true), StructField("condition", StringType, true))) val dfcars = sqlContext.read.format("com.databricks.spark.csv").option("header", "true") .schema(carsSchema).load("/TestDivya/Spark/cars.csv") val dftags = sqlContext.read.format("com.databricks.spark.csv").option("header", "true") .schema(carTagsSchema).load("/TestDivya/Spark/CarTags.csv") val Amendeddf = dfcars.withColumn("TagId", dfcars("blank")) val cdtnval = dftags.select("condition") val df2=dfcars.filter(cdtnval) <console>:35: error: overloaded method value filter with alternatives: (conditionExpr: String)org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame <and> (condition: org.apache.spark.sql.Column)org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame cannot be applied to (org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame) val df2=dfcars.filter(cdtnval) another way : val col = dftags.col("TagId") val finaldf = dfcars.withColumn("TagId", col) org.apache.spark.sql.AnalysisException: resolved attribute(s) TagId#5 missing from comment#3,blank#4,model#2,make#1,year#0 in operator !Project [year#0,make#1,model#2,comment#3,blank#4,TagId#5 AS TagId#8]; finaldf.write.format("com.databricks.spark.csv").option("header", "true").save("/TestDivya/Spark/carswithtags.csv") Would really appreciate if somebody give me pointers how can I pass the filter condition(second dataframe) to filter function of first dataframe. Or another solution . My apppologies for such a naive question as I am new to scala and Spark Thanks Information transmitted by this e-mail is proprietary to Mphasis, its associated companies and/ or its customers and is intended for use only by the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient or it appears that this mail has been forwarded to you without proper authority, you are notified that any use or dissemination of this information in any manner is strictly prohibited. In such cases, please notify us immediately at mailmas...@mphasis.com and delete this mail from your records.