Create JSON schema from schema string Java-Spark

Question

I have the following schema:

root
  |-- id: string (nullable = true)
  |-- text: string (nullable = true)  
  |-- user: string (nullable = true)

How can I create StructType schema from this String?

I know that I can use .schema() method in my Dataset but I asking If its possible to create Schema from string.

Answer 1

I was need something like that and i wrote a method, this able to creating the schema from string. But you must change this method for your scenario.

val schemaString = "val1#Int val2#String val3#Int"

val schema = StructType(schemaString.split(" ").map(fieldNameTypeStr => {
  val fieldNameType = fieldNameTypeStr.split("#")
  val dataType: DataType = fieldNameType(1) match {
    case "String" => StringType
    case "Int" => IntegerType
      /* other cases */
  }
  StructField(fieldNameType(0), dataType, true)
}))