base64

Computes the BASE64 encoding of a binary column and returns it as a string column.

For the corresponding Databricks SQL function, see base64 function.

Syntax

from pyspark.databricks.sql import functions as dbf

dbf.base64(col=<col>)

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
col	pyspark.sql.Column or str	target column to work on.

Returns

pyspark.sql.Column: BASE64 encoding of string value.

Examples

from pyspark.databricks.sql import functions as dbf
df = spark.createDataFrame(["Spark", "PySpark", "Pandas API"], "STRING")
df.select("*", dbf.base64("value")).show()