Thursday 13 December 2018

error: not found: type Column in Spark Scala


How to get rid of below error
spark-shell --queue= *;

To adjust logging level use sc.setLogLevel(newLevel).
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Spark context available as sc 
SQL context available as sqlContext.

scala>  val sqlcontext = new org.apache.spark.sql.SQLContext(sc)
sqlcontext: org.apache.spark.sql.SQLContext = org.apache.spark.sql.SQLContext@4f9a8d71  

scala> var selectExpr : List[Column] = List("Type","Item","Price")
<console>:25: error: not found: type Column
         var selectExpr : List[Column] = List("Type","Item","Price")
                               ^

You need to just import org.apache.spark.sql.Column
scala> import org.apache.spark.sql.Column

import org.apache.spark.sql.Column

scala> var selectExpr : List[Column] = List(col("Type"),col("Item"),col("Price"))
selectExpr: List[org.apache.spark.sql.Column] = List(Type, Item, Price)