Oh WOW. Although I'm a bit disappointed that Spark SQL doesn't have this functionality built-in, this is an excellent tip!

I haven't turned into a udf quite yet, but I have the proper building blocks. For example, below I can extract the raw schema StructType from my desired entity.json schema file. And I just found out I can turn it into a `simpleString()` which I will be able to use directly in the read_files VIEW!

Thanks a ton!