I try to use (1,), but doesn't work, what's the syntax to define Tuple1 in scala ?
scala> val a=(1,)
<console>:1: error: illegal start of simple expression
val a=(1,)
3 Answers
For tuple with cardinality 2 or more, you can use parentheses, however for with cardinality 1, you need to use Tuple1:
scala> val tuple1 = Tuple1(1)
tuple1: (Int,) = (1,)
scala> val tuple2 = ('a', 1)
tuple2: (Char, Int) = (a,1)
scala> val tuple3 = ('a', 1, "name")
tuple3: (Char, Int, java.lang.String) = (a,1,name)
scala> tuple1._1
res0: Int = 1
scala> tuple2._2
res1: Int = 1
scala> tuple3._1
res2: Char = a
scala> tuple3._3
res3: String = name
To declare the type, use Tuple1[T], for example val t : Tuple1[Int] = Tuple1(22)
Comments
A tuple is, by definition, an ordered list of elements. While Tuple1 exists, I haven't seen it used explicitly given you'd normally use a single element. Nevertheless, there is no sugar, you need to use Tuple1(1).
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There is a valid use case in Spark that requires Tuple1: create a dataframe with one column.
import org.apache.spark.ml.linalg.Vectors
val data = Seq(
Vectors.sparse(5, Seq((1, 1.0), (3, 7.0))),
Vectors.dense(2.0, 0.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0),
Vectors.dense(4.0, 0.0, 0.0, 6.0, 7.0)
)
data.toDF("features").show()
It will throw an error: "value toDF is not a member of Seq[org.apache.spark.ml.linalg.Vector]"
To make it work, we have to convert each row to Tuple1:
val data = Seq(
Tuple1(Vectors.sparse(5, Seq((1, 1.0), (3, 7.0)))),
Tuple1(Vectors.dense(2.0, 0.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0)),
Tuple1(Vectors.dense(4.0, 0.0, 0.0, 6.0, 7.0))
)
or a better way:
val data = Seq(
Vectors.sparse(5, Seq((1, 1.0), (3, 7.0))),
Vectors.dense(2.0, 0.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0),
Vectors.dense(4.0, 0.0, 0.0, 6.0, 7.0)
).map(Tuple1.apply)
Tuple1(1)?