Spark SQL with Schema

# Import data types
from pyspark.sql.types import *

sc = spark.sparkContext

# Load a text file and convert each line to a Row.
lines = sc.textFile("examples/src/main/resources/people.txt")
parts = lines.map(lambda l: l.split(","))
# Each line is converted to a tuple.
people = parts.map(lambda p: (p[0], p[1].strip()))

# The schema is encoded in a string.
schemaString = "name age"

fields = [StructField(field_name, StringType(), True) for field_name in schemaString.split()]
schema = StructType(fields)

# Apply the schema to the RDD.
schemaPeople = spark.createDataFrame(people, schema)

# Creates a temporary view using the DataFrame
schemaPeople.createOrReplaceTempView("people")

# SQL can be run over DataFrames that have been registered as a table.
results = spark.sql("SELECT name FROM people")

results.show()
# +-------+
# |   name|
# +-------+
# |Michael|
# |   Andy|
# | Justin|
# +-------+