[SPARK-8056] Design an easier way to construct schema for both Scala and Python

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.0
• Component/s: SQL
• Target Version/s: 1.5.0
• Sprint: Spark 1.5 doc/QA sprint
• Assignee: Ilya Ganelin
• Reporter: Reynold Xin
• Shepherd: Reynold Xin
• Created: 02/Jun/15 23:59
• Updated: 29/Jun/15 21:15
• Resolved: 29/Jun/15 21:15

Description

StructType is fairly hard to construct, especially in Python.

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #6678 (ilganeli)
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #6686 (ilganeli)