I am trying to parse a json file as csv file. The structure is a little bit complex and I wrote a spark program in scala to accomplish this task. Like the document does not contain a json object per line I decided to use the wholeTextFiles method as suggested in some answers and posts I’ve found. val jsonRDD = spark.sparkContext.wholeTextFiles(fileInPath).map(x => x._2) Then I read the json content in a dataframe val dwdJson = spark.read.json(jsonRDD) Then I would like to navigate the json and flatten out the data. This is the schema from dwdJson root
|-- meta: struct (nullable = true)
| |-- dimensions: struct (nullable = true)
| | |-- lat: long (nullable = true)
| | |-- lon: long (nullable = true)
| | |-- time: long (nullable = true)
| |-- directory: string (nullable = true)
| |-- filename: string (nullable = true)
|-- records: array (nullable = true)
| |-- element: struct (containsNull = true)
| | |-- grids: array (nullable = true)
| | | |-- element: struct (containsNull = true)
| | | | |-- gPt: array (nullable = true)
| | | | | |-- element: double (containsNull = true)
| | |-- time: string (nullable = true)
<br> This is my best approach: val dwdJson_e1 = dwdJson.select($"meta.filename", explode($"records").as("records_flat"))
val dwdJson_e2 = dwdJson_e1.select($"filename", $"records_flat.time",explode($"records_flat.grids").as("gPt"))
val dwdJson_e3 = dwdJson_e2.select($"filename", $"time", $"gPt.gPt")
val dwdJson_flat = dwdJson_e3.select($"filename",$"time",$"gPt".getItem(0).as("lat1"),$"gPt".getItem(1).as("long1"),$"gPt".getItem(2).as("lat2"),$"gPt".getItem(3).as("long2"),$"gPt".getItem(4).as("value")) I am a scala rookie and I am wondering if I can avoid create the intermediate dataframes (dwdJson_e1, dwdJson_e2, dwdJson_e3) that seems to be inefficient and the program runs very slowly (compare with a java parser running in a laptop). On the other side I could not find I way how to unbind these nested arrays. spark version: 2.0.0 scala: 2.11.8 java: 1.8 HDP: 2.5 sample Json file I want to convert: {
"meta" : {
"directory" : "weather/cosmo/de/grib/12/aswdir_s",
"filename" : "COSMODE_single_level_elements_ASWDIR_S_2018022312_000.grib2.bz2",
"dimensions" : {
"lon" : 589,
"time" : 3,
"lat" : 441
}
},
"records" : [ {
"grids" : [ {
"gPt" : [ 45.175, 13.55, 45.2, 13.575, 3.366295E-7 ]
}, {
"gPt" : [ 45.175, 13.575, 45.2, 13.6, 3.366295E-7 ]
}, {
"gPt" : [ 45.175, 13.6, 45.2, 13.625, 3.366295E-7 ]
} ],
"time" : "2018-02-23T12:15:00Z"
}, {
"grids" : [ {
"gPt" : [ 45.175, 13.55, 45.2, 13.575, 4.545918E-7 ]
}, {
"gPt" : [ 45.175, 13.575, 45.2, 13.6, 4.545918E-7 ]
}, {
"gPt" : [ 45.175, 13.6, 45.2, 13.625, 4.545918E-7 ]
}
],
"time" : "2018-02-23T12:30:00Z"
}
]
}
This is a sample output from the json above: filename, time, lat1, long1, lat2, long2, value
ASWDIR_S_...,2018-02-23T12:15:00Z,45.175,13.55,45.2,13.575,3.366295E-7
ASWDIR_S_...,2018-02-23T12:15:00Z,45.175,13.575,45.2,13.6,3.366295E-7
ASWDIR_S_...,2018-02-23T12:15:00Z,45.175,13.6,45.2,13.625,3.366295E-7
ASWDIR_S_...,2018-02-23T12:30:00Z,45.175,45.175,13.55,45.2,13.575,4.545918E-7
ASWDIR_S_...,2018-02-23T12:30:00Z,45.175,45.175,13.575,45.2,13.6,4.545918E-7
ASWDIR_S_...,2018-02-23T12:30:00Z,45.175,45.175,13.6,45.2,13.625,4.545918E-7 Any help will be appreciated. Kind regards, Paul
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