Scala & Spark: Cast multiple columns at once

Question

Since the VectorAssembler is crashing, if a passed column has any other type than NumericType or BooleanType and I\'m dealing with a lot of T

Answer 1

Based on the comments (thanks!) I came up with the following code (no error handling implemented):

def castAllTypedColumnsTo(df: DataFrame, 
   sourceType: DataType, targetType: DataType) : DataFrame = {

      val columnsToBeCasted = df.schema
         .filter(s => s.dataType == sourceType)

      //if(columnsToBeCasted.length > 0) {
      //   println(s"Found ${columnsToBeCasted.length} columns " +
      //      s"(${columnsToBeCasted.map(s => s.name).mkString(",")})" +
      //      s" - casting to ${targetType.typeName.capitalize}Type")
      //}

      columnsToBeCasted.foldLeft(df){(foldedDf, col) => 
         castColumnTo(foldedDf, col.name, LongType)}
}

Thanks for the inspiring comments. foldLeft (explained here and here) saves a for loop to iterate over a var dataframe.

Answer 2

FastDf = (spark.read.csv("Something.csv", header = False, mode="DRPOPFORMED"))
FastDf.OldTypes = [feald.dataType for feald in FastDf.schema.fields]
FastDf.NewTypes = [StringType(), FloatType(), FloatType(), IntegerType()]
FastDf.OldColnames = FastDf.columns
FastDf.NewColnames = ['S_tring', 'F_loat', 'F_loat2', 'I_nteger']
FastDfSchema = FastDf.select(*
                             (FastDf[colnumber]
                              .cast(FastDf.NewTypes[colnumber])
                              .alias(FastDf.NewColnames[colnumber]) 
                                  for colnumber in range(len(FastDf.NewTypes)
                                                )
                             )
                            )

I know it is in pyspark but the logic might be handy.

Answer 3

I am translating scala program for python. I found smart answer to your problem. The column are named V1 - V28, Time, Amount, Class. (I am not Scala pro) The solution looks like this.

// cast all the column to Double type.
val df = raw.select(((1 to 28).map(i => "V" + i) ++ Array("Time", "Amount", "Class")).map(s => col(s).cast("Double")): _*)

The link: https://github.com/intel-analytics/analytics-zoo/blob/master/apps/fraudDetection/Fraud%20Detction.ipynb

Answer 4

casting of all columns with idiomatic approach in scala

def castAllTypedColumnsTo(df: DataFrame, sourceType: DataType, targetType: DataType) = {
df.schema.filter(_.dataType == sourceType).foldLeft(df) {
    case (acc, col) => acc.withColumn(col.name, df(col.name).cast(targetType))
 }
}