Convert PySpark dataframe column from list to string
While you can use a UserDefinedFunction
it is very inefficient. Instead it is better to use concat_ws
function:
from pyspark.sql.functions import concat_ws
df.withColumn("test_123", concat_ws(",", "test_123")).show()
+----+----------------+
|uuid| test_123|
+----+----------------+
| 1|test,test2,test3|
| 2|test4,test,test6|
| 3|test6,test9,t55o|
+----+----------------+
You can create a udf
that joins array/list and then apply it to the test column:
from pyspark.sql.functions import udf, col
join_udf = udf(lambda x: ",".join(x))
df.withColumn("test_123", join_udf(col("test_123"))).show()
+----+----------------+
|uuid| test_123|
+----+----------------+
| 1|test,test2,test3|
| 2|test4,test,test6|
| 3|test6,test9,t55o|
+----+----------------+
The initial data frame is created from:
from pyspark.sql.types import StructType, StructField
schema = StructType([StructField("uuid",IntegerType(),True),StructField("test_123",ArrayType(StringType(),True),True)])
rdd = sc.parallelize([[1, ["test","test2","test3"]], [2, ["test4","test","test6"]],[3,["test6","test9","t55o"]]])
df = spark.createDataFrame(rdd, schema)
df.show()
+----+--------------------+
|uuid| test_123|
+----+--------------------+
| 1|[test, test2, test3]|
| 2|[test4, test, test6]|
| 3|[test6, test9, t55o]|
+----+--------------------+