Add months to date column in Spark dataframe

Question

I have a scenario where I want to add months to a date column in spark DataFrame which has two columns with data type (Date, Int)

e.g.

df.show()

data_date months_to_add
2015-06-23 5
2016-07-20 7

I want to add a new column which will have a new date (After adding months to existing date) and output will look like below-

data_date month_to_add new_data_date
2015-06-23 5           2015-11-23
2016-07-20 1           2016-8-20

I have tried below piece of code, but it does not seems to be working-

df = df.withColumn("new_data_date", a
  dd_months(col("data_date"), col("months_to_add")))

it gives me error-

'Column' object is not callable

Please help me if there is any method to achieve this without using SQL query on top of dataframe.

Answer 1

I'd use expr:

from pyspark.sql.functions import expr

df = spark.createDataFrame(
    [("2015-06-23", 5), ("2016-07-20", 7)],
    ("data_date", "months_to_add")
).select(to_date("data_date").alias("data_date"), "months_to_add")

df.withColumn("new_data_date", expr("add_months(data_date, months_to_add)")).show()

+----------+-------------+-------------+
| data_date|months_to_add|new_data_date|
+----------+-------------+-------------+
|2015-06-23|            5|   2015-11-23|
|2016-07-20|            7|   2017-02-20|
+----------+-------------+-------------+