[SPARK-31156] DataFrameStatFunctions API is not consistent with respect to Column type

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Incomplete
• Affects Version/s: 2.4.4
• Component/s: Java API
• Labels: bulk-closed
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Oleksii Kachaiev
• Created: 14/Mar/20 22:36
• Updated: 25/May/21 01:53
• Resolved: 25/May/21 01:40

Description

Some functions from org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrameStatFunctions class accepts org.apache.spark.sql.Column as an argument:

• bloomFilter
• countMinSketch
• sampleBy

When the rest of the functions accept only String (or collections of String's respectively):

• approxQuantile
• corr
• cov
• crosstab
• freqItems

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #28133