org.apache.spark.sql.types.package.scala Maven / Gradle / Ivy
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package org.apache.spark.sql
/**
* Contains a type system for attributes produced by relations, including complex types like
* structs, arrays and maps.
*/
package object types {
/**
* Metadata key used to store the raw hive type string in the metadata of StructField. This
* is relevant for datatypes that do not have a direct Spark SQL counterpart, such as CHAR and
* VARCHAR. We need to preserve the original type in order to invoke the correct object
* inspector in Hive.
*/
val HIVE_TYPE_STRING = "HIVE_TYPE_STRING"
}