How to use Spark SQL to parse the JSON array of objects

Question

now has JSON data as follows

{\"Id\":11,\"data\":[{\"package\":\"com.browser1\",\"activetime\":60000},{\"package\":\"com.browser6\",\"activetime\":1205000},{\"pa         


        

Answer 1

with @Shankar Koirala 's help , I learned how to use ' explode' to handle joson array.

  val df = sqlContext.sql("SELECT data FROM behavior")
appActiveTime.select(explode(df("data"))).toDF("data")
  .select("data.package","data.activetime")
  .show(false)