pyspark - create DataFrame Grouping columns in map type structure

Question

My DataFrame has the following structure:

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| Brand | type |  amount|
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|  B   |   a  |   10   |
|  B   |   b  |   20   |
|  C   |   c  |   30   |
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I want to reduce the amount of rows by grouping type and amount into one single column of type: Map So Brand will be unique and MAP_type_AMOUNT will have key,value for each type amount combination.

I think Spark.sql might have some functions to help in this process, or do I have to get the RDD being the DataFrame and make my "own" conversion to map type?

Expected:

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    | Brand | MAP_type_AMOUNT 
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    |  B    | {a: 10, b:20} |
    |  C    | {c: 30}       |
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Answer 1

Slight improvement to Prem's answer (sorry I can't comment yet)

Use func.create_map instead of func.struct. See documentation

import pyspark.sql.functions as func
df = sc.parallelize([('B','a',10),('B','b',20),
('C','c',30)]).toDF(['Brand','Type','Amount'])

df_converted = df.groupBy("Brand").\
    agg(func.collect_list(func.create_map(func.col("Type"),
    func.col("Amount"))).alias("MAP_type_AMOUNT"))

print df_converted.collect()

Output:

[Row(Brand=u'B', MAP_type_AMOUNT=[{u'a': 10}, {u'b': 20}]),
 Row(Brand=u'C', MAP_type_AMOUNT=[{u'c': 30}])]