Spark JSON text field to RDD

Question

I\'ve got a cassandra table with a field of type text named snapshot containing JSON objects:

[identifier, timestamp, snapshot]

I understood th

Answer 1

Almost there, you just want to pass your an RDD[String] with your json into the jsonRDD method

val conf = new SparkConf().setAppName("signal-aggregation")
val sc = new SparkContext(conf)
val sqlContext = new SQLContext(sc)
val snapshots = sc.cassandraTable[(String, String, String)]("listener", "snapshots")
val jsons = snapshots.map(_._3) // Get Third Row Element Json(RDD[String]) 
val jsonSchemaRDD = sqlContext.jsonRDD(jsons) // Pass in RDD directly
jsonSchemaRDD.registerTempTable("testjson")
sqlContext.sql("SELECT * FROM testjson where .... ").collect 

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A quick example

val stringRDD = sc.parallelize(Seq(""" 
  { "isActive": false,
    "balance": "$1,431.73",
    "picture": "http://placehold.it/32x32",
    "age": 35,
    "eyeColor": "blue"
  }""",
   """{
    "isActive": true,
    "balance": "$2,515.60",
    "picture": "http://placehold.it/32x32",
    "age": 34,
    "eyeColor": "blue"
  }""", 
  """{
    "isActive": false,
    "balance": "$3,765.29",
    "picture": "http://placehold.it/32x32",
    "age": 26,
    "eyeColor": "blue"
  }""")
)
sqlContext.jsonRDD(stringRDD).registerTempTable("testjson")
csc.sql("SELECT age from testjson").collect
//res24: Array[org.apache.spark.sql.Row] = Array([35], [34], [26])