layout: global title: JSON Files displayTitle: JSON Files

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 %}