pyspark.sql.tvf.TableValuedFunction.posexplode

TableValuedFunction.posexplode(collection)

Returns a DataFrame containing a new row for each element with position in the given array or map. Uses the default column name pos for position, and col for elements in the array and key and value for elements in the map unless specified otherwise.

New in version 4.0.0.

Parameters

collectionColumn

target column to work on.

Returns

DataFrame

See also

pyspark.sql.functions.posexplode()

Examples

>>> import pyspark.sql.functions as sf
>>> spark.tvf.posexplode(sf.array(sf.lit(1), sf.lit(2), sf.lit(3))).show()
+---+---+
|pos|col|
+---+---+
|  0|  1|
|  1|  2|
|  2|  3|
+---+---+
>>> spark.tvf.posexplode(sf.create_map(sf.lit("a"), sf.lit("b"))).show()
+---+---+-----+
|pos|key|value|
+---+---+-----+
|  0|  a|    b|
+---+---+-----+