pyspark: Auto filling in implicit missing values - pyspark

Question

I have a dataframe
user day amount
a 2 10
a 1 14
a 4 5
b 1 4
You see that, the maximum value of day is 4, and the minimum value is 1. I want to fill 0 for amount column in all missing days of all users, so the above data frame will become.
user day amount
a 2 10
a 1 14
a 4 5
a 3 0
b 1 4
b 2 0
b 3 0
b 4 0
How could I do that in PySpark? Many thanks.

Answer 1

Here is one approach. You can get the min and max values first , then group on user column and pivot, then fill in missing columns and fill all nulls as 0, then stack them back:
min_max = df.agg(F.min("day"),F.max("day")).collect()[0]
df1 = df.groupBy("user").pivot("day").agg(F.first("amount").alias("amount")).na.fill(0)
missing_cols = [F.lit(0).alias(str(i)) for i in range(min_max[0],min_max[1]+1)
if str(i) not in df1.columns ]
df1 = df1.select("*",*missing_cols)
#+----+---+---+---+---+
#|user| 1| 2| 4| 3|
#+----+---+---+---+---+
#| b| 4| 0| 0| 0|
#| a| 14| 10| 5| 0|
#+----+---+---+---+---+
#the next step is inspired from https://stackoverflow.com/a/37865645/9840637
arr = F.explode(F.array([F.struct(F.lit(c).alias("day"), F.col(c).alias("amount"))
for c in df1.columns[1:]])).alias("kvs")
(df1.select(["user"] + [arr])
.select(["user"]+ ["kvs.day", "kvs.amount"]).orderBy("user")).show()
+----+---+------+
|user|day|amount|
+----+---+------+
| a| 1| 14|
| a| 2| 10|
| a| 4| 5|
| a| 3| 0|
| b| 1| 4|
| b| 2| 0|
| b| 4| 0|
| b| 3| 0|
+----+---+------+
Note, since column day was pivotted , the dtype might have changed so you may have to cast them back to the original dtype

Answer 2

Another way to do this is to use sequence, array functions and explode. (spark2.4+)
from pyspark.sql import functions as F
from pyspark.sql.window import Window
w=Window().partitionBy(F.lit(0))
df.withColumn("boundaries", F.sequence(F.min("day").over(w),F.max("day").over(w),F.lit(1)))\
.groupBy("user").agg(F.collect_list("day").alias('day'),F.collect_list("amount").alias('amount')\
,F.first("boundaries").alias("boundaries")).withColumn("boundaries", F.array_except("boundaries","day"))\
.withColumn("day",F.flatten(F.array("day","boundaries"))).drop("boundaries")\
.withColumn("zip", F.explode(F.arrays_zip("day","amount")))\
.select("user","zip.day", F.when(F.col("zip.amount").isNull(),\
F.lit(0)).otherwise(F.col("zip.amount")).alias("amount")).show()
#+----+---+------+
#|user|day|amount|
#+----+---+------+
#| a| 2| 10|
#| a| 1| 14|
#| a| 4| 5|
#| a| 3| 0|
#| b| 1| 4|
#| b| 2| 0|
#| b| 3| 0|
#| b| 4| 0|
#+----+---+------+