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Provide a way to construct a `TypedColumn` reference from a Symbol

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@iravid is already working on this.

Since Sep 22, 2017.

  • #187 by @iravid — open

Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
scala, spark

Research direction

Start by reviewing the linked pull request 187 alongside the issue's chained TypedDataset.select example. Check the proposed TypedDataset.select overload and frameless.functions.col path, and confirm that the example can reference the newly introduced column without an intermediate val.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

enhancement feature

Currently, we cannot chain selects that reference columns introduced in a select without introducing intermediate vals. Here's a (contrived) example:

case class X2(i: Int, j: Int)

val ds = TypedDataset.create(Seq(X2(10, 10))

ds.select(ds('i), ds('j), ds('i) + 1).select(ds('_3))

One possible solution for this would be to provide an overload to TypedDataset.select that uses Symbol arguments and a similar frameless.functions.col function.

Dominant language
Scala
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Forks
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Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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