@Akash Mehta So, even following wont work for you? If not, I think currently there is no other way given we have looked at all other possible options. //a DataFrame can be created for a JSON dataset represented by // an RDD[String] storing one JSON object per string. val anotherPeopleRDD = sc.parallelize( """{"name":"Yin","address":{"city":"Columbus","state":"Ohio"}}""" :: Nil) val anotherPeople = sqlContext.read.json(anotherPeopleRDD) ... View more