How to access an array element in dataframe column (scala) [duplicate]

Question

The first column in dfElements2 is an array. I needed to select the first element (30002| 30005 | 30158 ...) instead of the array instead the full array at the same time I select the latitude and longitude:

The data frame should be as follows:

+-----------------------------------+
| short_name  |   lat    |   lng
+-----------------------------------+
|   30002     |37.9796566|-1.1317041|
|   30005     |37.9868856|-1.1371011|
|   30158     | 37.941845|-1.0681918|
|   30006     |37.9971704|-1.0993366|
+-----------------------------------+

Could you tell me if there is any possibility to edit the command results.address_components.short_name to access the array elements?

var DFResults2=DF_Google1.select(explode(DF_Google1 ("results"))).toDF("results")
var dfElements2=DFResults2.select("results.address_components.short_name","results.geometry.location.lat","results.geometry.location.lng")**
var dfElements3=dfElements2.select(explode(dfElements2("short_name"))).toDF("CP")

dfElements2.show()
dfElements2.printSchema()


+--------------------+----------+----------+
|          short_name|       lat|       lng|
+--------------------+----------+----------+
|[30002, Murcia, M...|37.9796566|-1.1317041|
|[30005, Murcia, M...|37.9868856|-1.1371011|
|[30158, Murcia, M...| 37.941845|-1.0681918|
|[30006, Murcia, M...|37.9971704|-1.0993366|
|[30100, Murcia, M...|38.0256612|-1.1640968|
|[30009, Murcia, M...|37.9887492|-1.1496969|
|[30008, Murcia, M...|37.9928939|-1.1317041|
|[30007, Murcia, M...|38.0077579|-1.0993366|
|[Murcia, MU, Regi...|37.9922399|-1.1306544|
|[30004, Murcia, M...|37.9822582|-1.1365014|
|[30003, Murcia, M...|37.9850434|-1.1221111|
|[Murcia, MU, Regi...|37.9922399|-1.1306544|
|[30152, Murcia, M...|37.9569734|-1.1496969|
|[30012, Murcia, M...|37.9651726|-1.1233101|
|[30011, Murcia, M...|37.9759009|-1.1089244|
|[30001, Murcia, M...|37.9856424|-1.1287061|
|[30010, Murcia, M...| 37.970285|-1.1424989|
+--------------------+----------+----------+

root
 |-- short_name: array (nullable = true)
 |    |-- element: string (containsNull = true)
 |-- lat: double (nullable = true)
 |-- lng: double (nullable = true)

Answer 1

Try This:

df.selectExpr("short_name[0]", "lat", "lng")

The selection of the nth item is actually a SQL expression, not a column. So you can also use expr if you want to use .select:

df.select(expr("short_name[0]"), expr("lat"), expr("lng"))

Answer 2

you can use the apply method on column, or alternatively getItem:

df.select(col("results.address_components.short_name")(0))

or

df.select(col("results.address_components.short_name").getItem(0))