[SPARK-43927] Add cast alias to Scala and Python

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Affects Version/s: 3.5.0
• Component/s: Connect, PySpark, SQL
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ruifeng Zheng
• Created: 02/Jun/23 01:35
• Updated: 02/Jun/23 06:59
• Resolved: 02/Jun/23 06:59

Description

add functions for:

• castAlias("boolean", BooleanType),
• castAlias("tinyint", ByteType),
• castAlias("smallint", ShortType),
• castAlias("int", IntegerType),
• castAlias("bigint", LongType),
• castAlias("float", FloatType),
• castAlias("double", DoubleType),
• castAlias("decimal", DecimalType.USER_DEFAULT),
• castAlias("date", DateType),
• castAlias("timestamp", TimestampType),
• castAlias("binary", BinaryType),
• castAlias("string", StringType),