pyspark.sql.functions.java_method#

pyspark.sql.functions.java_method(*cols)[source]#

Calls a method with reflection.

New in version 3.5.0.

Parameters

colsColumn or str: the first element should be a literal string for the class name, and the second element should be a literal string for the method name, and the remaining are input arguments to the Java method.

Examples

>>> import pyspark.sql.functions as sf
>>> spark.range(1).select(
...     sf.java_method(
...         sf.lit("java.util.UUID"),
...         sf.lit("fromString"),
...         sf.lit("a5cf6c42-0c85-418f-af6c-3e4e5b1328f2")
...     )
... ).show(truncate=False)
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|java_method(java.util.UUID, fromString, a5cf6c42-0c85-418f-af6c-3e4e5b1328f2)|
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|a5cf6c42-0c85-418f-af6c-3e4e5b1328f2                                         |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+