How to extract an element from a array in pyspark

Question

I have a data frame with following type:

col1|col2|col3|col4
xxxx|yyyy|zzzz|[1111],[2222]

I want my output to be following type:

col1|col2|col3|col4|col5
xxxx|yyyy|zzzz|1111|2222

My col4 is an array and I want to convert it to a separate column. What needs to be done?

I saw many answers with flatMap, but they are increasing a row, I want just the tuple to be put in another column but in the same row

The following is my actual schema:

root
 |-- PRIVATE_IP: string (nullable = true)
 |-- PRIVATE_PORT: integer (nullable = true)
 |-- DESTINATION_IP: string (nullable = true)
 |-- DESTINATION_PORT: integer (nullable = true)
 |-- collect_set(TIMESTAMP): array (nullable = true)
 |    |-- element: string (containsNull = true)

Also, can please someone help me with explanation on both dataframes and RDD's.

Answer 1

Create sample data:

from pyspark.sql import Row
x = [Row(col1="xx", col2="yy", col3="zz", col4=[123,234])]
rdd = sc.parallelize([Row(col1="xx", col2="yy", col3="zz", col4=[123,234])])
df = spark.createDataFrame(rdd)
df.show()
#+----+----+----+----------+
#|col1|col2|col3|      col4|
#+----+----+----+----------+
#|  xx|  yy|  zz|[123, 234]|
#+----+----+----+----------+

Use getItem to extract element from the array column as this, in your actual case replace col4 with collect_set(TIMESTAMP):

df = df.withColumn("col5", df["col4"].getItem(1)).withColumn("col4", df["col4"].getItem(0))
df.show()
#+----+----+----+----+----+
#|col1|col2|col3|col4|col5|
#+----+----+----+----+----+
#|  xx|  yy|  zz| 123| 234|
#+----+----+----+----+----+

Answer 2

You have 4 options to extract the value inside the array:

df = spark.createDataFrame([[1, [10, 20, 30, 40]]], ['A', 'B'])
df.show()

+---+----------------+
|  A|               B|
+---+----------------+
|  1|[10, 20, 30, 40]|
+---+----------------+

from pyspark.sql import functions as F

df.select(
    "A",
    df.B[0].alias("B0"), # dot notation and index        
    F.col("B")[1].alias("B1"), # function col and index
    df.B.getItem(2).alias("B2"), # dot notation and method getItem
    F.col("B").getItem(3).alias("B3"), # function col and method getItem
).show()

+---+---+---+---+---+
|  A| B0| B1| B2| B3|
+---+---+---+---+---+
|  1| 10| 20| 30| 40|
+---+---+---+---+---+

In case you have many columns, use a list comprehension:

df.select(
    'A', *[F.col('B')[i].alias(f'B{i}') for i in range(4)]
).show()

+---+---+---+---+---+
|  A| B0| B1| B2| B3|
+---+---+---+---+---+
|  1| 10| 20| 30| 40|
+---+---+---+---+---+