[SPARK-8766] support non-ascii character in column names

Use UTF-8 to encode the name of column in Python 2, or it may failed to encode with default encoding ('ascii').

This PR also fix a bug when there is Java exception without error message.

Author: Davies Liu <davies@databricks.com>

Closes #7165 from davies/non_ascii and squashes the following commits:

02cb61a [Davies Liu] fix tests
3b09d31 [Davies Liu] add encoding in header
867754a [Davies Liu] support non-ascii character in column names

python/pyspark/sql/dataframe.py

@@ -484,13 +484,12 @@ def dtypes(self):
         return [(str(f.name), f.dataType.simpleString()) for f in self.schema.fields]
 
     @property
-    @ignore_unicode_prefix
     @since(1.3)
     def columns(self):
         """Returns all column names as a list.
 
         >>> df.columns
-        [u'age', u'name']
+        ['age', 'name']
         """
         return [f.name for f in self.schema.fields]
 

python/pyspark/sql/tests.py

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+# -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-
 #
 # Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
 # contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
@@ -628,6 +629,14 @@ def test_access_column(self):
         self.assertRaises(IndexError, lambda: df["bad_key"])
         self.assertRaises(TypeError, lambda: df[{}])
 
+    def test_column_name_with_non_ascii(self):
+        df = self.sqlCtx.createDataFrame([(1,)], ["数量"])
+        self.assertEqual(StructType([StructField("数量", LongType(), True)]), df.schema)
+        self.assertEqual("DataFrame[数量: bigint]", str(df))
+        self.assertEqual([("数量", 'bigint')], df.dtypes)
+        self.assertEqual(1, df.select("数量").first()[0])
+        self.assertEqual(1, df.select(df["数量"]).first()[0])
+
     def test_access_nested_types(self):
         df = self.sc.parallelize([Row(l=[1], r=Row(a=1, b="b"), d={"k": "v"})]).toDF()
         self.assertEqual(1, df.select(df.l[0]).first()[0])

python/pyspark/sql/types.py

@@ -324,6 +324,8 @@ def __init__(self, name, dataType, nullable=True, metadata=None):
         False
         """
         assert isinstance(dataType, DataType), "dataType should be DataType"
+        if not isinstance(name, str):
+            name = name.encode('utf-8')
         self.name = name
         self.dataType = dataType
         self.nullable = nullable

python/pyspark/sql/utils.py

@@ -29,9 +29,9 @@ def deco(*a, **kw):
         try:
             return f(*a, **kw)
         except py4j.protocol.Py4JJavaError as e:
-            cls, msg = e.java_exception.toString().split(': ', 1)
-            if cls == 'org.apache.spark.sql.AnalysisException':
-                raise AnalysisException(msg)
+            s = e.java_exception.toString()
+            if s.startswith('org.apache.spark.sql.AnalysisException: '):
+                raise AnalysisException(s.split(': ', 1)[1])
             raise
     return deco