[SPARK-23359] Adds an alias 'names' of 'fieldNames' in Scala's StructType

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.3.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.4.0
• Component/s: SQL
• Assignee: Hyukjin Kwon
• Reporter: Hyukjin Kwon
• Created: 08/Feb/18 12:37
• Updated: 12/Dec/22 17:50
• Resolved: 15/Feb/18 09:13

Description

See the discussion in SPARK-20090. It happened to deprecate names in Python side but seems we better add an alias names in Scala side too.

Issue Links

• relates to: SPARK-20090 Add StructType.fieldNames to Python API
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #20545 (HyukjinKwon)