Spark generate a list of column names that contains(SQL LIKE) a string - scala

Question

This one below is a simple syntax to search for a string in a particular column uisng SQL Like functionality.
val dfx = df.filter($"name".like(s"%${productName}%"))
The questions is How do I grab each and every column NAME that contained the particular string in its VALUES and generate a new column with a list of those "column names" for every row.
So far this is the approach I took but stuck as I cant use spark-sql "Like" function inside a UDF.
import org.apache.spark.sql.functions._
import org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame
import org.apache.spark.sql.types._
import spark.implicits._
val df1 = Seq(
(0, "mango", "man", "dit"),
(1, "i-man", "man2", "mane"),
(2, "iman", "mango", "ho"),
(3, "dim", "kim", "sim")
).toDF("id", "col1", "col2", "col3")
val df2 = df1.columns.foldLeft(df1) {
(acc: DataFrame, colName: String) =>
acc.withColumn(colName, concat(lit(colName + "="), col(colName)))
}
val df3 = df2.withColumn("merged_cols", split(concat_ws("X", df2.columns.map(c=> col(c)):_*), "X"))
Here is a sample output. Note that here there are only 3 columns but in the real job I'll be reading multiple tables which can contain dynamic number of columns.
+--------------------------------------------+
|id | col1| col2| col3| merged_cols
+--------------------------------------------+
0 | mango| man | dit | col1, col2
1 | i-man| man2 | mane | col1, col2, col3
2 | iman | mango| ho | col1, col2
3 | dim | kim | sim|
+--------------------------------------------+

Answer 1

This can be done using a foldLeft over the columns together with when and otherwise:
val e = "%man%"
val df2 = df1.columns.foldLeft(df.withColumn("merged_cols", lit(""))){(df, c) =>
df.withColumn("merged_cols", when(col(c).like(e), concat($"merged_cols", lit(s"$c,"))).otherwise($"merged_cols"))}
.withColumn("merged_cols", expr("substring(merged_cols, 1, length(merged_cols)-1)"))
All columns that satisfies the condition e will be appended to the string in the merged_cols column. Note that the column must exist for the first append to work so it is added (containing an empty string) to the dataframe when sent into the foldLeft.
The last row in the code simply removes the extra , that is added in the end. If you want the result as an array instead, simply adding .withColumn("merged_cols", split($"merged_cols", ",")) would work.
An alternative appraoch is to instead use an UDF. This could be preferred when dealing with many columns since foldLeft will create multiple dataframe copies. Here regex is used (not the SQL like since that operates on whole columns).
val e = ".*man.*"
val concat_cols = udf((vals: Seq[String], names: Seq[String]) => {
vals.zip(names).filter{case (v, n) => v.matches(e)}.map(_._2)
})
val df2 = df.withColumn("merged_cols", concat_cols(array(df.columns.map(col(_)): _*), typedLit(df.columns.toSeq)))
Note: typedLit can be used in Spark versions 2.2+, when using older versions use array(df.columns.map(lit(_)): _*) instead.