Explode array values using PySpark

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I am new to pyspark and I need to explode my array of values in such a way that each value gets assigned to a new column. I tried using explode but I couldn't get the desired output.Below is my output

+---------------+----------+------------------+----------+---------+------------+--------------------+
|account_balance|account_id|credit_Card_Number|first_name|last_name|phone_number|        transactions|
+---------------+----------+------------------+----------+---------+------------+--------------------+
|         100000|     12345|             12345|       abc|      xyz|  1234567890|[1000, 01/06/2020...|
|         100000|     12345|             12345|       abc|      xyz|  1234567890|[1100, 02/06/2020...|
|         100000|     12345|             12345|       abc|      xyz|  1234567890|[6146, 02/06/2020...|
|         100000|     12345|             12345|       abc|      xyz|  1234567890|[253, 03/06/2020,...|
|         100000|     12345|             12345|       abc|      xyz|  1234567890|[4521, 04/06/2020...|
|         100000|     12345|             12345|       abc|      xyz|  1234567890|[955, 05/06/2020,...|
+---------------+----------+------------------+----------+---------+------------+--------------------+

Below is the schema of the program

root
 |-- account_balance: long (nullable = true)
 |-- account_id: long (nullable = true)
 |-- credit_Card_Number: long (nullable = true)
 |-- first_name: string (nullable = true)
 |-- last_name: string (nullable = true)
 |-- phone_number: long (nullable = true)
 |-- transactions: array (nullable = true)
 |    |-- element: struct (containsNull = true)
 |    |    |-- amount: long (nullable = true)
 |    |    |-- date: string (nullable = true)
 |    |    |-- shop: string (nullable = true)
 |    |    |-- transaction_code: string (nullable = true)

I want an output in which I have additional columns of amount,date,shop,transaction_code with their respective values

amount date        shop     transaction_code
1000   01/06/2020  amazon      buy
1100   02/06/2020  amazon      sell
6146   02/06/2020  ebay        buy
253    03/06/2020  ebay        buy 
4521   04/06/2020  amazon      buy
955    05/06/2020  amazon      buy

notNull · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-29 17:59:07Z

8

Use explode and then split the struct fileds, finally drop the newly exploded and transactions array columns.

Example:

from pyspark.sql.functions import *

#got only some columns from json
df.printSchema()
#root
# |-- account_balance: long (nullable = true)
# |-- transactions: array (nullable = true)
# |    |-- element: struct (containsNull = true)
# |    |    |-- amount: long (nullable = true)
# |    |    |-- date: string (nullable = true)
df.selectExpr("*","explode(transactions)").select("*","col.*").drop(*['col','transactions']).show()
#+---------------+------+--------+
#|account_balance|amount|    date|
#+---------------+------+--------+
#|             10|  1000|20200202|
#+---------------+------+--------+

answered Jun 29, 2020 at 17:59

notNull

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keerthi007 Over a year ago

Great solution ! Thank you so much !

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