schema_of_variant

Returns schema in the SQL format of a variant.

Syntax

from pyspark.sql import functions as sf

sf.schema_of_variant(v)

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
v	pyspark.sql.Column or str	A variant column or column name.

Returns

pyspark.sql.Column: a string column representing the variant schema

Examples

from pyspark.sql import functions as sf
df = spark.createDataFrame([ {'json': '''{ "a" : 1 }'''} ])
df.select(sf.schema_of_variant(sf.parse_json(df.json)).alias("r")).collect()

[Row(r='OBJECT<a: BIGINT>')]