Get min value of nested array in Spark Dataset

Question

I have a JSON server log file that I want to parse using Spark 2.2.0 and Java API, which I convert to a Dataset using

Dataset<Row> df = spark.read().json(args[0]);

Then, it generates the following schema:

df.printschema();



root

|-- timestamp: long (nullable = true)

|-- results: struct (nullable = true)

|    |-- entities: array (nullable = true)

|    |    |-- element: struct (containsNull = true)

|    |    |    |-- entity_id: string (nullable = true)

|    |    |    |-- score: long (nullable = true)

|    |    |    |-- is_available: boolean (nullable = true)

|    |-- number_of_results: long (nullable = true)

I want to get the entity with the lowest score and that is available, so I would get a Dataset similar to:

 root

 |-- timestamp: long (nullable = true)

 |-- results: struct (nullable = true)

 |    |-- entity: struct (containsNull = true)

 |    |    |-- entity_id: string (nullable = true)

 |    |    |-- score: long (nullable = true)

 |    |    |-- is_available: boolean (nullable = true)

How can I do this transformation?

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Answer 1

You can apply a user defined function on your array column :

// Define the UDF that takes the min of array
UDF1<Seq<Row>, Row> getElement = seq -> {
    Row bestRow = null;
    long bestRowScore = Long.MAX_VALUE;
    for (Row r : JavaConversions.seqAsJavaList(seq)){
        if (r.getBoolean(1) && r.getLong(2)<bestRowScore){
            bestRow = r;
            bestRowScore = r.getLong(2);
        }
    }
    return bestRow;
};

// Define the return type of UDF
ArrayType arrayType = (ArrayType) df.select(df.col("results.entities")).schema().fields()[0].dataType();
DataType elementType = arrayType.elementType();

// Register UDF
sparkSession.udf().register("getElement", getElement, elementType);

// Apply UDF on dataset
Dataset<Row> transformedDF = df.select(df.col("timestamp"),functions.callUDF("getElement", df.col("results.entities")));
transformedDF.printSchema();

Get min value of nested array in Spark Dataset

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