pyspark.sql.functions.schema_of_json¶

pyspark.sql.functions.schema_of_json(json, options={})[source]¶

Parses a JSON string and infers its schema in DDL format.

New in version 2.4.0.

Parameters

jsonColumn or str: a JSON string or a foldable string column containing a JSON string.
optionsdict, optional: options to control parsing. accepts the same options as the JSON datasource

Changed in version 3.0: It accepts options parameter to control schema inferring.

Examples

>>> df = spark.range(1)
>>> df.select(schema_of_json(lit('{"a": 0}')).alias("json")).collect()
[Row(json='STRUCT<`a`: BIGINT>')]
>>> schema = schema_of_json('{a: 1}', {'allowUnquotedFieldNames':'true'})
>>> df.select(schema.alias("json")).collect()
[Row(json='STRUCT<`a`: BIGINT>')]

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