[SPARK-11946] Audit pivot API for 1.6

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.6.0
• Component/s: SQL
• Target Version/s: 1.6.0
• Assignee: Reynold Xin
• Reporter: Reynold Xin
• Created: 24/Nov/15 08:02
• Updated: 24/Nov/15 20:54
• Resolved: 24/Nov/15 20:54

Description

Currently pivot's signature looks like

@scala.annotation.varargs
def pivot(pivotColumn: Column, values: Column*): GroupedData

@scala.annotation.varargs
def pivot(pivotColumn: String, values: Any*): GroupedData

I think we can remove the one that takes "Column" types, since callers should always be passing in literals. It'd also be more clear if the values are not varargs, but rather Seq or java.util.List.

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #9929 (rxin)