[SPARK-31429] Add additional fields in ExpressionDescription for more granular category in documentation

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0
• Component/s: Documentation, SQL
• Assignee: Takeshi Yamamuro
• Reporter: Huaxin Gao
• Created: 13/Apr/20 04:40
• Updated: 12/Dec/22 18:11
• Resolved: 21/Apr/20 01:58

Description

Add additional fields in ExpressionDescription so we can have more granular category in function documentation. For example, we want to group window function into finer categories such as ranking functions and analytic functions.

See Hyukjin's comment below for more details;
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/28170#issuecomment-611917191

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: SPARK-31104 Add documentation for all new Json Functions
• is related to: SPARK-31499 Add more column entries in bulit-in function tables of SQL references
• is related to: SPARK-31513 Improve the structure of auto-generated built-in function pages in SQL references
• is related to: SPARK-33124 Adds a group tag in all the expressions for built-in functions
• relates to: SPARK-31369 Add Documentation for JSON functions
• relates to: SPARK-31390 Document Window Function
• relates to: SPARK-31349 Document builtin aggregate function
• relates to: SPARK-28588 Build a SQL reference doc
• relates to: SPARK-31434 Drop builtin function pages from SQL references
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #28224