[SPARK-30257] Mapping simpleString to Spark SQL types

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.0
• Component/s: PySpark
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Shelby Vanhooser
• Created: 13/Dec/19 19:21
• Updated: 16/Mar/20 14:11
• Resolved: 16/Mar/20 14:11

Description

The PySpark mapping from simpleString to Spark SQL types are too manual right now; instead, pyspark.sql.types should expose a method that maps the simpleString representation of these types to the underlying Spark SQL ones

 

Tracked here : https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/26884

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #26884