Convert Array of String column to multiple columns in spark scala - scala

Question

I have a dataframe with following schema:
id : int,
emp_details: Array(String)
Some sample data:
1, Array(empname=xxx,city=yyy,zip=12345)
2, Array(empname=bbb,city=bbb,zip=22345)
This data is there in a dataframe and I need to read emp_details from the array and assign it to new columns as below or if I can split this array to multiple columns with column names as empname,city and zip:
.withColumn("empname", xxx)
.withColumn("city", yyy)
.withColumn("zip", 12345)
Could you please guide how we can achieve this by using Spark (1.6) Scala.
Really appreciate your help...
Thanks a lot

Answer 1

You can use withColumn and split to get the required data
df1.withColumn("empname", split($"emp_details" (0), "=")(1))
.withColumn("city", split($"emp_details" (1), "=")(1))
.withColumn("zip", split($"emp_details" (2), "=")(1))
Output:
+---+----------------------------------+-------+----+-----+
|id |emp_details |empname|city|zip |
+---+----------------------------------+-------+----+-----+
|1 |[empname=xxx, city=yyy, zip=12345]|xxx |yyy |12345|
|2 |[empname=bbb, city=bbb, zip=22345]|bbb |bbb |22345|
+---+----------------------------------+-------+----+-----+
UPDATE:
If you don't have fixed sequence of data in array then you can use UDF to convert to map and use it as
val getColumnsUDF = udf((details: Seq[String]) => {
val detailsMap = details.map(_.split("=")).map(x => (x(0), x(1))).toMap
(detailsMap("empname"), detailsMap("city"),detailsMap("zip"))
})
Now use the udf
df1.withColumn("emp",getColumnsUDF($"emp_details"))
.select($"id", $"emp._1".as("empname"), $"emp._2".as("city"), $"emp._3".as("zip"))
.show(false)
Output:
+---+-------+----+---+
|id |empname|city|zip|
+---+-------+----+---+
|1 |xxx |xxx |xxx|
|2 |bbb |bbb |bbb|
+---+-------+----+---+
Hope this helps!