PySpark Python Sorting dataframe using a column

Question

So I have 2 questions which I think should be basic for people experienced in PySpark, but I can't seem to solve them.

Sample entries in my csv file are-

"dfg.AAIXpWU4Q","1"
"cvbc.AAU3aXfQ","1"
"T-L5aw0L1uT_OfFyzbk","1"
"D9TOXY7rA_LsnvwQa-awVk","2"
"JWg8_0lGDA7OCwWcH_9aDc","2"
"ewrq.AAbRaACr2tVh5wA","1"
"ewrq.AALJWAAC-Qku3heg","1"
"ewrq.AADStQqmhJ7A","2"
"ewrq.AAEAABh36oHUNA","1"
"ewrq.AALJABfV5u-7Yg","1"

I create the following dataframe-

>>> df2.show(3)
+-------+----+
|user_id|hits|
+-------+----+
|"aYk...| "7"|
|"yDQ...| "1"|
|"qUU...|"13"|
+-------+----+
only showing top 3 rows

First, is this the right way to convert hits column to IntegerType()? Why are all values becoming null?

>>> df2 = df2.withColumn("hits", df2["hits"].cast(IntegerType()))
>>> df2.show(3)
+-------+----+
|user_id|hits|
+-------+----+
|"aYk...|null|
|"yDQ...|null|
|"qUU...|null|
+-------+----+
only showing top 3 rows

Second, I need to sort this list in descending order with respect to hits column. So, I tried this-

>>> df1 = df2.sort(col('hits').desc())
>>> df1.show(20)

But I get the following error-

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Input row doesn't have expected number of values required by the schema. 2 fields are required while 18 values are provided.

I'm guessing it's due to the fact that I create my dataframe using-

>>> rdd = sc.textFile("/path/to/file/*")
>>> rdd.take(2)
['"7wAfdgdfgd","7"', '"1x3Qdfgdf","1"']
​
>>> my_df = rdd.map(lambda x: (x.split(","))).toDF()

>>> df2 = my_df.selectExpr("_1 as user_id", "_2 as hits")
>>> df2.show(3)
+-------+----+
|user_id|hits|
+-------+----+
|"aYk...| "7"|
|"yDQ...| "1"|
|"qUU...|"13"|
+-------+----+
only showing top 3 rows

And I'm guessing there's extra commas in some rows. How do I avoid this - or what's the best way to read this file?

Answer 1

UPDATE

-- Adding file read and split

looking at example above, created a file like this

'"7wAfdgdfgd","7"'
'"1x3Qdfgdf","1"'
'"13xxyyzzsdff","13"'

--Please note the ' to make all the lines as single string Now the code to read it :

scala> val myRdd = sc.textFile("test_file.dat")
myRdd: org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD[String] = test_file.dat MapPartitionsRDD[1] at textFile at <console>:24
// please check the type of RDD , here it is string
// We need to have Iterable[tuple(String,String)] to convert it into Dataframe

scala> myRdd.map(x => x.replace("'","")).map(x => x.split(",")).map( x => (x(0),x(1)))
res0: org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD[(String, String)] = MapPartitionsRDD[4] at map at <console>:26

// Finally
    scala> myRdd.map(x => x.replace("'","")).map(x => x.split(",")).map( x => (x(0),x(1))).toDF("user_id","hits").show(false)
+--------------+----+
|user_id       |hits|
+--------------+----+
|"7wAfdgdfgd"  |"7" |
|"1x3Qdfgdf"   |"1" |
|"13xxyyzzsdff"|"13"|
+--------------+----+

END of UPDATE

since you are new(or otherwise), I recommend/practice running actual ANSI sql instead of pyspark.sql.functions. It makes easy to maintain + there is no advantage of using sql.functions over ansi sql. Obviously, you need to know sql/columns functions provided by spark as I used split,orderBy and cast in answer. Since you did not provide with content of text file, here is my take and all the 3 answers in one SQL

    myDf = spark.createDataFrame([("abc","7"),("xyz","18"),("lmn","4,xyz")],schema=["user_id","hits"])
myDf.show(20,False)
+-------+-----+
|user_id|hits |
+-------+-----+
|abc    |7    |
|xyz    |18   |
|lmn    |4,xyz|
+-------+-----+

myDf.createOrReplaceTempView("hits_table")

SQL + Result

    spark.sql("select user_id, cast(split(hits,',')[0] as integer) as hits from hits_table order by hits desc ").show(20,False)
    +-------+----+
    |user_id|hits|
    +-------+----+
    |xyz    |18  |
    |abc    |7   |
    |lmn    |4   |
    +-------+----+

Answer 2

So, w.r.t @SanBan answer, I came up with the following results-

>>> rdd = sc.textFile("/home/jsanghvi/work/buffer/*")

>>> schema =  StructType([StructField ("user_id", StringType(), True), StructField ("hits", StringType(), True)])

>>> my_rdd = rdd.map(lambda x: x.replace("'","")).map(lambda x: x.split(",")).map(lambda x: (x[0],x[1]))

>>> my_rdd2 = my_rdd.map(lambda x: str(x).replace("'","").replace("(", "").replace(")", "")).map(lambda x: x.split(",")).map(lambda x: (x[0],x[1]))

>>> df1 = spark.createDataFrame(my_rdd2, schema)

>>> dfx = df1.sort(col('hits').desc())

>>> dfx.show(5)
+----------------+--------------------+                                     
|         user_id|                hits|
+----------------+--------------------+
|"AUDIO_AUTO_PLAY| EXPANDABLE_AUTOM...|
|       "user_id"|             "_col1"|
| "AAESjk66lDk...|              "9999"|
| "ABexsk6sLlc...|              "9999"|
| "AAgb1k65pHI...|              "9999"|
+----------------+--------------------+

# removing garbage rows
>>> dfx = df2.filter(~col("hits").isin(["_col1", "EXPANDABLE_AUTOM..."]))