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A couple of changes can make the current Pandas UDFs more friendly for non-spark users:
support native python types Users should not have to know the spark datatype objects.
Use python3 typing for expressing types Type hints are required by spark and now they can be expressed naturally in python 3 too. You can quickly declare a python UDF with the following pythonic syntax:
The input type is optional but then can be use to do either casting or type checking, just like in scala.
An alternative syntax for expressing the same thing in python 2 could be:
TODO: move this to a google doc for proper design.
All these are mostly implemented in https://github.com/databricks/spark-pandas/blob/master/pandorable_sparky/typing.py#L86
A couple of changes can make the current Pandas UDFs more friendly for non-spark users:
support native python types Users should not have to know the spark datatype objects.
Use python3 typing for expressing types Type hints are required by spark and now they can be expressed naturally in python 3 too. You can quickly declare a python UDF with the following pythonic syntax:
The input type is optional but then can be use to do either casting or type checking, just like in scala.
An alternative syntax for expressing the same thing in python 2 could be:
Similarly for reducers. The following function can be automatically infered to be a UDAF because it returns an integer.
Broadcasting For example, for UDFs that take multiple columns as arguments, a scalar should be accepted as treated as a SQL
lit()
.Useful and relevant code:
https://github.com/databricks/spark-pandas/blob/master/pandorable_sparky/typing.py#L86
https://github.com/databricks/Koala/blob/master/potassium/utils/spark_utils.py
https://github.com/dvgodoy/handyspark/blob/master/handyspark/sql/schema.py
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