[SEDONA-11] Improve the Adapter API to directly yield Geometry column

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.0.0
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Jia Yu
• Created: 15/Dec/20 05:00
• Updated: 18/Dec/20 08:19
• Resolved: 18/Dec/20 08:19

Description

Currently, the Adapter in Sedona SQL toDf method converts a Spatial RDD back to a DF. The newly generated DF has a "geometry" column but in StringType. The end user has to run an additional "ST_GeomFromWKT" to convert that to a Geometry Type column. This will affect performance.

 

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #496