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Note that the file that is offered as a json file is not a typical JSON file. Each line must contain a separate, self-contained valid JSON object. For more information, please see JSON Lines text format, also called newline-delimited JSON.

For a regular multi-line JSON file, set the multiLine option to true.

{% include_example json_dataset scala/org/apache/spark/examples/sql/SQLDataSourceExample.scala %}

Note that the file that is offered as a json file is not a typical JSON file. Each line must contain a separate, self-contained valid JSON object. For more information, please see JSON Lines text format, also called newline-delimited JSON.

For a regular multi-line JSON file, set the multiLine option to true.

{% include_example json_dataset java/org/apache/spark/examples/sql/JavaSQLDataSourceExample.java %}

Note that the file that is offered as a json file is not a typical JSON file. Each line must contain a separate, self-contained valid JSON object. For more information, please see JSON Lines text format, also called newline-delimited JSON.

For a regular multi-line JSON file, set the multiLine parameter to True.

{% include_example json_dataset python/sql/datasource.py %}

Note that the file that is offered as a json file is not a typical JSON file. Each line must contain a separate, self-contained valid JSON object. For more information, please see JSON Lines text format, also called newline-delimited JSON.

For a regular multi-line JSON file, set a named parameter multiLine to TRUE.

{% include_example json_dataset r/RSparkSQLExample.R %}

{% highlight sql %}

CREATE TEMPORARY VIEW jsonTable USING org.apache.spark.sql.json OPTIONS ( path “examples/src/main/resources/people.json” )

SELECT * FROM jsonTable

{% endhighlight %}

Data Source Option

Data source options of JSON can be set via:

  • the .option/.options methods of
    • DataFrameReader
    • DataFrameWriter
    • DataStreamReader
    • DataStreamWriter
  • the built-in functions below
    • from_json
    • to_json
    • schema_of_json
  • OPTIONS clause at CREATE TABLE USING DATA_SOURCE