How to deal with column name with .(dot) in pyspark dataframe??

MithuWagh — Tue, 24 Dec 2019 12:14:09 GMT

We are streaming data from kafka source with json but in some column we are getting .(dot) in column names.
streaming json data:

df1 = df.selectExpr("CAST(value AS STRING)")

{"pNum":"A14","from":"telecom","payload":{"TARGET":"1","COUNTRY":"India","EMAIL.1":"test@test.com","PHONE.1":"1122334455"}}

in above json we are getting (EMAIL.1,PHONE.1) with .(dot) name.
we are extracting the json data with get_json_object like below but we are getting Email and phone values are null

df2 = df1.select(get_json_object(df1["value"], '$.pNum').alias('pNum'), get_json_object(df1["value"], '$.from').alias('from'), get_json_object(df1["value"], '$.payload.TARGET').alias('TARGET'), get_json_object(df1["value"], '$.payload.COUNTRY').alias('COUNTRY'), get_json_object(df1["value"], '$.payload.EMAIL.1').alias('EMAIL'), get_json_object(df1["value"], '$.payload.PHONE.1').alias('PHONE'))

then how to deal with this type of columns name??

Re: How to deal with column name with .(dot) in pyspark dataframe??

shyam_9 — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 11:27:03 GMT

Hi @Mithu Wagh you can use backticks to enclose the column name.

df.select("`col0.1`")

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How to deal with column name with .(dot) in pyspark dataframe??

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