creating datasets in Java

datasets.java

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.io.Serializable;

import org.apache.spark.api.java.function.MapFunction;
import org.apache.spark.sql.Dataset;
import org.apache.spark.sql.Row;
import org.apache.spark.sql.Encoder;
import org.apache.spark.sql.Encoders;

public static class Person implements Serializable {
  private String name;
  private int age;

  public String getName() {
    return name;
  }

  public void setName(String name) {
    this.name = name;
  }

  public int getAge() {
    return age;
  }

  public void setAge(int age) {
    this.age = age;
  }
}

// Create an instance of a Bean class
Person person = new Person();
person.setName("Andy");
person.setAge(32);

// Encoders are created for Java beans
Encoder<Person> personEncoder = Encoders.bean(Person.class);
Dataset<Person> javaBeanDS = spark.createDataset(
  Collections.singletonList(person),
  personEncoder
);
javaBeanDS.show();

// Encoders for most common types are provided in class Encoders
Encoder<Integer> integerEncoder = Encoders.INT();
Dataset<Integer> primitiveDS = spark.createDataset(Arrays.asList(1, 2, 3), integerEncoder);
Dataset<Integer> transformedDS = primitiveDS.map(
    (MapFunction<Integer, Integer>) value -> value + 1,
    integerEncoder);
transformedDS.collect(); // Returns [2, 3, 4]

// DataFrames can be converted to a Dataset by providing a class. Mapping based on name
String path = "examples/src/main/resources/people.json";
Dataset<Person> peopleDS = spark.read().json(path).as(personEncoder);
peopleDS.show();