Casting a new derived column in a DataFrame from boolean to integer

Question

Suppose I have a DataFrame x with this schema:

xSchema = StructType([ \
    StructField("a", DoubleType(), True), \
    StructField("b", DoubleType(), True), \
    StructField("c", DoubleType(), True)])

I then have the DataFrame:

DataFrame[a :double, b:double, c:double]

I would like to have an integer derived column. I am able to create a boolean column:

x = x.withColumn('y', (x.a-x.b)/x.c > 1)

My new schema is:

DataFrame[a :double, b:double, c:double, y: boolean]

However, I would like column y to contain 0 for False and 1 for True.

The cast function can only operate on a column and not a DataFrame and the withColumn function can only operate on a DataFrame. How to I add a new column and cast it to integer at the same time?

Answer 1

Expression you use evaluates to column so you can cast directly like this:

x.withColumn('y', ((x.a-x.b) / x.c > 1).cast('integer')) # Or IntegerType()