'Split JSON string column to multiple columns without schema - PySpark
I have a delta table which has a column with JSON data. I do not have a schema for it and need a way to convert the JSON data into columns
|id | json_data
| 1 | {"name":"abc", "depts":["dep01", "dep02"]}
| 2 | {"name":"xyz", "depts":["dep03"],"sal":100}
| 3 | {"name":"pqr", "depts":["dep02"], "address":{"city":"SF"}}
Expected output
|id | name | depts | sal | address_city
| 1 | "abc" | ["dep01", "dep02"] | null| null
| 2 | "xyz" | ["dep03"] | 100 | null
| 3 | "pqr" | ["dep02"] | null| "SF"
Solution 1:[1]
Input Dataframe -
df = spark.createDataFrame(data = [(1 , """{"name":"abc", "depts":["dep01", "dep02"]}"""), (2 , """{"name":"xyz", "depts":["dep03"],"sal":100}"""), (3 , """{"name":"pqr", "depts":["dep02"], "address":{"city":"SF"}}""")], schema = ["id", "json_data"])
df.show(truncate=False)
+---+----------------------------------------------------------+
|id |json_data |
+---+----------------------------------------------------------+
|1 |{"name":"abc", "depts":["dep01", "dep02"]} |
|2 |{"name":"xyz", "depts":["dep03"],"sal":100} |
|3 |{"name":"pqr", "depts":["dep02"], "address":{"city":"SF"}}|
+---+----------------------------------------------------------+
Convert json_data column to MapType as below -
from pyspark.sql.functions import *
from pyspark.sql.types import *
df1 = df.withColumn("cols", from_json("json_data", MapType(StringType(), StringType()))).drop("json_data")
df1.show(truncate=False)
+---+-----------------------------------------------------------+
|id |cols |
+---+-----------------------------------------------------------+
|1 |{name -> abc, depts -> ["dep01","dep02"]} |
|2 |{name -> xyz, depts -> ["dep03"], sal -> 100} |
|3 |{name -> pqr, depts -> ["dep02"], address -> {"city":"SF"}}|
+---+-----------------------------------------------------------+
Now, column cols needs to be exploded as below -
df2 = df1.select("id",explode("cols").alias("col_columns", "col_rows"))
df2.show(truncate=False)
+---+-----------+-----------------+
|id |col_columns|col_rows |
+---+-----------+-----------------+
|1 |name |abc |
|1 |depts |["dep01","dep02"]|
|2 |name |xyz |
|2 |depts |["dep03"] |
|2 |sal |100 |
|3 |name |pqr |
|3 |depts |["dep02"] |
|3 |address |{"city":"SF"} |
+---+-----------+-----------------+
Once, you have col_columns and col_rows as individual columns, all that is needed to do is pivot col_columns and aggregate it using its corresponding first col_rows as below -
df3 = df2.groupBy("id").pivot("col_columns").agg(first("col_rows"))
df3.show(truncate=False)
+---+-------------+-----------------+----+----+
|id |address |depts |name|sal |
+---+-------------+-----------------+----+----+
|1 |null |["dep01","dep02"]|abc |null|
|2 |null |["dep03"] |xyz |100 |
|3 |{"city":"SF"}|["dep02"] |pqr |null|
+---+-------------+-----------------+----+----+
Finally, you again need to repeat the above steps to bring address in structured format as below -
df4 = df3.withColumn("address", from_json("address", MapType(StringType(), StringType())))
df4.select("id", "depts", "name", "sal",explode_outer("address").alias("key", "address_city")).drop("key").show(truncate=False)
+---+-----------------+----+----+------------+
|id |depts |name|sal |address_city|
+---+-----------------+----+----+------------+
|1 |["dep01","dep02"]|abc |null|null |
|2 |["dep03"] |xyz |100 |null |
|3 |["dep02"] |pqr |null|SF |
+---+-----------------+----+----+------------+
Solution 2:[2]
In order to solve it you can use split function as code below.
The function takes 2 parameters, the first one is the column itself and the second is the pattern to split the elements from column array.
More information and examples cand be found here:
from pyspark.sql import functions as F
df.select(F.split(F.col('depts'), ','))
Sources
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| Solution | Source |
|---|---|
| Solution 1 | DKNY |
| Solution 2 | danimille |