Creating MAPTYPE field from multiple columns - Spark SQL - sql

Question

I have a use case wherein multiple keys are distributed across the dataset in a JSON format, which needs to be aggregated into a consolidated resultset for further processing.
I have been able to develop a code structure that achieves it using both Python API (PySpark) & Spark SQL, but the latter involves a more composite & tardy of doing it and involves intermediate conversations which can in the future lead to errors.
Using the below snippets, is there a better way to achieve this using Spark SQL, by creating a MAP<STRING,ARRAY<STRING> using key and value?
Data Preparation
from pyspark.sql.types import *
import pandas as pd
from io import StringIO
s = StringIO("""
id|json_struct
1|{"a":["tyeqb","",""],"e":["qwrqc","",""]}
1|{"t":["sartq","",""],"r":["fsafsq","",""]}
1|{"b":["puhqiqh","",""],"e":["hjfsaj","",""]}
2|{"b":["basajhjwa","",""],"e":["asfafas","",""]}
2|{"n":["gaswq","",""],"r":["sar","",""],"l":["sar","",""],"s":["rqqrq","",""],"m":["wrqwrq","",""]}
2|{"s":["tqqwjh","",""],"t":["afs","",""],"l":["fsaafs","",""]}
""")
df = pd.read_csv(s,delimiter='|')
sparkDF = spark.createDataFrame(df)
sparkDF.registerTempTable("INPUT")
sparkDF = sparkDF.withColumn('json_struct', F.from_json(F.col('json_struct')
,schema=MapType(StringType(),ArrayType(StringType()),True)
))
sparkDF.show(truncate=False)
+---+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|id |json_struct |
+---+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|1 |{a -> [tyeqb, , ], e -> [qwrqc, , ]} |
|1 |{t -> [sartq, , ], r -> [fsafsq, , ]} |
|1 |{b -> [puhqiqh, , ], e -> [hjfsaj, , ]} |
|2 |{b -> [basajhjwa, , ], e -> [asfafas, , ]} |
|2 |{n -> [gaswq, , ], r -> [sar, , ], l -> [sar, , ], s -> [rqqrq, , ], m -> [wrqwrq, , ]}|
|2 |{s -> [tqqwjh, , ], t -> [afs, , ], l -> [fsaafs, , ]} |
+---+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Python API (PySpark) - Implementation
As you can see, the resultant key from explode is natively a STRING type and since PySpark has create_map, which is not available within Spark SQL, it can be readily used to generate the final json_struct column ensuring a single key with a varying length ARRAYTYPE<STRING> value
sparkDF.select(
F.col('id')
,F.explode(F.col('json_struct'))
).withColumn('value',F.filter(F.col('value'), lambda x: x != '')\
).withColumn('value',F.concat_ws(',', F.col('value'))\
).groupBy('id', 'key'
).agg(F.collect_set(F.col('value')).alias('value')\
).withColumn('json_struct',F.to_json(F.create_map("key","value"))
).orderBy('id'
).show(truncate=False)
+---+---+---------------+------------------------+
|id |key|value |json_struct |
+---+---+---------------+------------------------+
|1 |a |[tyeqb] |{"a":["tyeqb"]} |
|1 |e |[hjfsaj, qwrqc]|{"e":["hjfsaj","qwrqc"]}|
|1 |r |[fsafsq] |{"r":["fsafsq"]} |
|1 |b |[puhqiqh] |{"b":["puhqiqh"]} |
|1 |t |[sartq] |{"t":["sartq"]} |
|2 |b |[basajhjwa] |{"b":["basajhjwa"]} |
|2 |n |[gaswq] |{"n":["gaswq"]} |
|2 |t |[afs] |{"t":["afs"]} |
|2 |s |[tqqwjh, rqqrq]|{"s":["tqqwjh","rqqrq"]}|
|2 |e |[asfafas] |{"e":["asfafas"]} |
|2 |l |[sar, fsaafs] |{"l":["sar","fsaafs"]} |
|2 |r |[sar] |{"r":["sar"]} |
|2 |m |[wrqwrq] |{"m":["wrqwrq"]} |
+---+---+---------------+------------------------+
Spark SQL - Implementation
Within this implementation, I have to take additional steps to ensure both key and value columns are of ARRAYTYPE and consistent lengths as map_from_arrays takes in arrays as inputs.
Is there a way to bypass these and create a similar schema as depicted using Python API?
sql.sql("""
SELECT
id,
KEY,
VALUE,
TO_JSON(MAP_FROM_ARRAYS(KEY,VALUE)) as json_struct
FROM (
SELECT
id,
key,
ARRAY(COLLECT_SET( value )) as value -- <------- ### Ensuring Value is NESTED ARRAY
FROM (
SELECT
id,
SPLIT(k,'|',1) as key, -- <------- ### Ensuring Key is Array
CONCAT_WS(',',FILTER(v,x -> x != '')) as value
FROM (
SELECT
id,
EXPLODE(FROM_JSON(json_struct,'MAP<STRING,ARRAY<STRING>>')) as (k,v)
FROM INPUT
)
)
GROUP BY 1,2
)
ORDER BY 1
""").show(truncate=False)
+---+---+-----------------+------------------------+
|id |KEY|VALUE |json_struct |
+---+---+-----------------+------------------------+
|1 |[a]|[[tyeqb]] |{"a":["tyeqb"]} |
|1 |[e]|[[hjfsaj, qwrqc]]|{"e":["hjfsaj","qwrqc"]}|
|1 |[b]|[[puhqiqh]] |{"b":["puhqiqh"]} |
|1 |[r]|[[fsafsq]] |{"r":["fsafsq"]} |
|1 |[t]|[[sartq]] |{"t":["sartq"]} |
|2 |[n]|[[gaswq]] |{"n":["gaswq"]} |
|2 |[b]|[[basajhjwa]] |{"b":["basajhjwa"]} |
|2 |[t]|[[afs]] |{"t":["afs"]} |
|2 |[s]|[[tqqwjh, rqqrq]]|{"s":["tqqwjh","rqqrq"]}|
|2 |[e]|[[asfafas]] |{"e":["asfafas"]} |
|2 |[l]|[[sar, fsaafs]] |{"l":["sar","fsaafs"]} |
|2 |[r]|[[sar]] |{"r":["sar"]} |
|2 |[m]|[[wrqwrq]] |{"m":["wrqwrq"]} |
+---+---+-----------------+------------------------+

Answer 1

Spark SQL instead of create_map has map. Your PySpark code could be translated into this:
df = spark.sql("""
WITH
TBL2 (SELECT id, EXPLODE(FROM_JSON(json_struct,'MAP<STRING,ARRAY<STRING>>')) from INPUT),
TBL3 (SELECT id, key, FLATTEN(COLLECT_SET(FILTER(value, x -> x != ''))) value
FROM TBL2
GROUP BY id, key)
SELECT *, TO_JSON(MAP(key, value)) json_struct
FROM TBL3
""")
df.show(truncate=0)
# +---+---+---------------+------------------------+
# |id |key|value |json_struct |
# +---+---+---------------+------------------------+
# |1 |a |[tyeqb] |{"a":["tyeqb"]} |
# |1 |e |[qwrqc, hjfsaj]|{"e":["qwrqc","hjfsaj"]}|
# |1 |b |[puhqiqh] |{"b":["puhqiqh"]} |
# |1 |r |[fsafsq] |{"r":["fsafsq"]} |
# |1 |t |[sartq] |{"t":["sartq"]} |
# |2 |b |[basajhjwa] |{"b":["basajhjwa"]} |
# |2 |n |[gaswq] |{"n":["gaswq"]} |
# |2 |s |[rqqrq, tqqwjh]|{"s":["rqqrq","tqqwjh"]}|
# |2 |t |[afs] |{"t":["afs"]} |
# |2 |e |[asfafas] |{"e":["asfafas"]} |
# |2 |l |[fsaafs, sar] |{"l":["fsaafs","sar"]} |
# |2 |r |[sar] |{"r":["sar"]} |
# |2 |m |[wrqwrq] |{"m":["wrqwrq"]} |
# +---+---+---------------+------------------------+