[SPARK-19830] Add parseTableSchema API to ParserInterface

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.1.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.2.0
• Component/s: SQL
• Target Version/s: 2.2.0
• Assignee: Xiao Li
• Reporter: Xiao Li
• Created: 06/Mar/17 04:31
• Updated: 16/Mar/17 04:07
• Resolved: 16/Mar/17 04:07

Description

Specifying the table schema in DDL formats is needed for different scenarios. For example, specifying the schema in SQL function from_json, and specifying the customized JDBC data types. In the submitted PRs, the idea is to ask users to specify the table schema in the JSON format. This is not user friendly.

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #17171 (gatorsmile)