ST_geomfromtext function using Spark / java

Question

Since the ST_GeomFromText is not the part of org.apache.spark.sql.functions so it will not recognise it internally.I need to first define the UDF for this function. means I

Answer 1

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I think, you haven't followed the GeoSparkSQL-Overview/#quick-start thoroughly-

1. As per the quick start you need to Add GeoSpark-core and GeoSparkSQL into your project POM.xml or build.sbt

<!-- Geo spark lib doc - https://datasystemslab.github.io/GeoSpark/api/sql/GeoSparkSQL-Overview/#quick-start-->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.datasyslab</groupId>
            <artifactId>geospark-sql_2.3</artifactId>
            <version>1.3.1</version>
        </dependency>
        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.vividsolutions/jts -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.vividsolutions</groupId>
            <artifactId>jts</artifactId>
            <version>1.13</version>
        </dependency>
        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.datasyslab/geospark-viz -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.datasyslab</groupId>
            <artifactId>geospark-viz_2.3</artifactId>
            <version>1.3.1</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.datasyslab</groupId>
            <artifactId>geospark</artifactId>
            <version>1.3.1</version>
        </dependency>

2. Declare your Spark Session

SparkSession sparkSession = SparkSession.builder()
                .config("spark.serializer", KryoSerializer.class.getName())
                .config("spark.kryo.registrator", GeoSparkKryoRegistrator.class.getName())
                .master("local[*]")
                .appName("myGeoSparkSQLdemo")
                .getOrCreate();

3. Register all the functions from geospark-sql_2.3 to the sparkSession so that it can be used directly spark-sql

// register all functions from geospark-sql_2.3 to sparkSession
GeoSparkSQLRegistrator.registerAll(sparkSession);

Now Here is the working example-

   SparkSession sparkSession = SparkSession.builder()
                .config("spark.serializer", KryoSerializer.class.getName())
                .config("spark.kryo.registrator", GeoSparkKryoRegistrator.class.getName())
                .master("local[*]")
                .appName("myGeoSparkSQLdemo")
                .getOrCreate();

        // register all functions from geospark-sql_2.3 to sparkSession
        GeoSparkSQLRegistrator.registerAll(sparkSession);
        try {
            System.out.println(sparkSession.catalog().getFunction("ST_Geomfromtext"));
            // Function[name='ST_GeomFromText', className='org.apache.spark.sql.geosparksql.expressions.ST_GeomFromText$', isTemporary='true']
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        // https://datasystemslab.github.io/GeoSpark/api/sql/GeoSparkSQL-Function/
        Dataset<Row> dataframe = sparkSession.sql("select ST_GeomFromText('POINT(-7.07378166 33.826661)')");
        dataframe.show(false);
        dataframe.printSchema();
        /**
         * +---------------------------------------------+
         * |st_geomfromtext(POINT(-7.07378166 33.826661))|
         * +---------------------------------------------+
         * |POINT (-7.07378166 33.826661)                |
         * +---------------------------------------------+
         */

        // using longitude and latitude column from existing dataframe
        Dataset<Row> df = sparkSession.sql("select -7.07378166 as longitude, 33.826661 as latitude");
        df.withColumn("ST_Geomfromtext ",
                expr("ST_GeomFromText(CONCAT('POINT(',longitude,' ',latitude,')'))"))
        .show(false);
        /**
         * +-----------+---------+-----------------------------+
         * |longitude  |latitude |ST_Geomfromtext              |
         * +-----------+---------+-----------------------------+
         * |-7.07378166|33.826661|POINT (-7.07378166 33.826661)|
         * +-----------+---------+-----------------------------+
         */

Answer 2

I think you should use a library like GeoSpark for that. I don't see that the function ST_Geomfromtext is there but it works for other formats like WKT https://datasystemslab.github.io/GeoSpark/api/sql/GeoSparkSQL-Constructor/#st_geomfromwkt. There are lots of other options and functions already implemented on geometrical data types, which I believe they will make your life much easier to calculate areas, crossing points, intersections, etc (for example) if you have to do it.

I am not sure what DB are you using (Postgis, SQL Server Spacial, etc.) but the definition of that function ST_Geomfromtext may slightly differ among them but WKT should be same as it's a standard definition of geometry

Hope this helps