[SPARK-8242] string function: decode

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.0
• Component/s: SQL
• Labels: missing-python
• Target Version/s: 1.5.0
• Sprint: Spark 1.5 release
• Assignee: Cheng Hao
• Reporter: Reynold Xin
• Created: 09/Jun/15 07:21
• Updated: 04/Jul/15 06:46
• Resolved: 04/Jul/15 06:46

Description

decode(binary bin, string charset): string

Decodes the first argument into a String using the provided character set (one of 'US-ASCII', 'ISO-8859-1', 'UTF-8', 'UTF-16BE', 'UTF-16LE', 'UTF-16'). If either argument is null, the result will also be null. (As of Hive 0.12.0.)

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #6843 (chenghao-intel)