Convert String to Date in Spark (Scala)

Raymond Raymond visibility 10,465 event 2018-03-04 access_time 3 years ago language English

Context

This pages demonstrates how to convert string to java.util.Date in Spark via Scala.

Prerequisites

If you have not installed Spark, follow the page below to install it:

Install Big Data Tools (Spark, Zeppelin, Hadoop) in Windows for Learning and Practice

Sample code

The following code snippet uses pattern yyyy-MM-dd to parse string to Date.

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat

import java.util.Date

val format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd")

val date = format.parse("2018-03-03")

Output

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Retrieve week day name

scala> val format2 = new SimpleDateFormat("EEEEE")
format2: java.text.SimpleDateFormat = java.text.SimpleDateFormat@3ecbf05

scala> format2.format(date)
res0: String = Saturday

Summary

For the complete list of Java date and time pattern, please refer to the following link.

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html

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