[SPARK-48220] Allow passing PyArrow Table to createDataFrame()

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 4.0.0, 3.5.1
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.0
• Component/s: Connect, Input/Output, PySpark, SQL
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Target Version/s: 4.0.0

Language

Python

• Assignee: Ian Cook
• Reporter: Ian Cook
• Created: 09/May/24 13:34
• Updated: 02/Jun/24 08:52
• Resolved: 02/Jun/24 08:52

Description

SPARK-47365 added support for returning a Spark DataFrame as a PyArrow Table.

It would be nice if we could also go in the opposite direction, enabling users to create a Spark DataFrame from a PyArrow Table by passing the PyArrow Table to spark.createDataFrame().

Issue Links

• is related to: SPARK-48302 Preserve nulls in map columns in PyArrow Tables
• is related to: SPARK-48374 Support additional PyArrow Table column types
• is related to: SPARK-48478 Allow passing iterator of PyArrow RecordBatches to createDataFrame()
• relates to: SPARK-47365 Add toArrow() DataFrame method to PySpark
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #46529