No its not required for UDF. Its required when you convert from rdd to df. Thanks Deepak
On 8 Sep 2016 2:25 pm, "Divya Gehlot" <divya.htco...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Is it necessary to import sqlContext.implicits._ whenever define and > call UDF in Spark. > > > Thanks, > Divya > > >