How to use Column.isin with list?

Question

val items = List(\"a\", \"b\", \"c\")

sqlContext.sql(\"select c1 from table\")
          .filter($\"c1\".isin(items))
          .collect
          .foreach(println)         


        

Answer 1

Even easier:

sqlContext.sql("select c1 from table")
          .filter($"c1".isin("a", "b", "c"))
          .collect
          .foreach(println)

Unless you have a lot of list values, which isn't the case usually.