pyspark.sql.functions.schema_of_variant#
- pyspark.sql.functions.schema_of_variant(v)[source]#
Returns schema in the SQL format of a variant.
New in version 4.0.0.
- Parameters
- v
Columnor str a variant column or column name
- v
- Returns
Columna string column representing the variant schema
Examples
>>> df = spark.createDataFrame([ {'json': '''{ "a" : 1 }'''} ]) >>> df.select(schema_of_variant(parse_json(df.json)).alias("r")).collect() [Row(r='OBJECT<a: BIGINT>')]