[SPARK-6994] Allow to fetch field values by name in sql.Row

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.3.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.0
• Component/s: SQL
• Labels: dataframe row
• Flags: Patch, Important
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/5573
• External issue ID: 5573
• Assignee: vidmantas zemleris
• Reporter: vidmantas zemleris
• Created: 18/Apr/15 19:54
• Updated: 09/May/15 17:09
• Resolved: 21/Apr/15 21:47

Description

It looked weird that up to now there was no way in Spark's Scala API to access fields of `DataFrame/sql.Row` by name, only by their index.

This tries to solve this issue.

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #5573 (vidma)
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #5754 (szheng79)
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #6030 (vidma)
• links to: PR with updated docs