Invalid Scark DataFrame fields

Question

I wrote the following code in Scala and Python, however the returned DataFrame does not seem to apply non-nullable fields in my schema, which I apply. italianVotes.csvis a CSV file with a delimiter of `~ 'and four fields. I am using Spark 2.1.0 .

italianVotes.csv

2657~135~2~2013-11-22 00:00:00.0
2658~142~2~2013-11-22 00:00:00.0
2659~142~1~2013-11-22 00:00:00.0
2660~140~2~2013-11-22 00:00:00.0
2661~140~1~2013-11-22 00:00:00.0
2662~1354~2~2013-11-22 00:00:00.0
2663~1356~2~2013-11-22 00:00:00.0
2664~1353~2~2013-11-22 00:00:00.0
2665~1351~2~2013-11-22 00:00:00.0
2667~1357~2~2013-11-22 00:00:00.0

Scala

import org.apache.spark.sql.types._
val schema =  StructType(
StructField("id", IntegerType, false) ::
StructField("postId", IntegerType, false) ::
StructField("voteType", IntegerType, true) ::
StructField("time", TimestampType, true) :: Nil)

val fileName = "italianVotes.csv"

val italianDF = spark.read.schema(schema).option("sep", "~").csv(fileName)

italianDF.printSchema()

// output
root
 |-- id: integer (nullable = true)
 |-- postId: integer (nullable = true)
 |-- voteType: integer (nullable = true)
 |-- time: timestamp (nullable = true)

python

from pyspark.sql.types import *

schema = StructType([
    StructField("id", IntegerType(), False),
    StructField("postId", IntegerType(), False),
    StructField("voteType", IntegerType(), True),
    StructField("time", TimestampType(), True),
])

file_name = "italianVotes.csv"

italian_df = spark.read.csv(file_name, schema = schema, sep = "~")

# print schema
italian_df.printSchema()

root
 |-- id: integer (nullable = true)
 |-- postId: integer (nullable = true)
 |-- voteType: integer (nullable = true)
 |-- time: timestamp (nullable = true)

My main question is: why can the first two fields be nullified if I set their value to non-zero in my schema?

Answer 1

In general, Spark Datasetseither inherits a property nullablefrom its parents or derives from external data types.

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