SparkSQL query dataframe

I am converted a pandas dataframe into spark sql table. I am new to SQL and would like to select the key ‘code’ from table.

query

sqlContext.sql("""SELECT `classification` FROM psyc""").show()

query response

+--------------------+
|      classification|
+--------------------+
|[{'code': '3297',...|
|[{'code': '3410',...|
|[{'code': '3410',...|
|[{'code': '2227',...|
|[{'code': '3410',...|
+--------------------+

How can I select the key ‘code’. The column contains a list of dict which contain the data.

 sqlContext.sql("""SELECT `classification.code` FROM psyc""").show() # this query does not work

Here is the rest of the code

from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
from pyspark.sql import SQLContext

spark = SparkSession 
    .builder 
    .appName("Python Spark SQL ") 
    .getOrCreate()

sc = spark.sparkContext                       
sqlContext = SQLContext(sc)

fp = os.path.join(BASE_DIR,'psyc.csv')
df = spark.read.csv(fp,header=True)
df.printSchema()
df.createOrReplaceTempView("psyc")

This creates a table with following schema

Answer

The field classification is of type string so first you have to convert it to struct type, after that you can directly select as classification.code. To convert from string to struct try below.

//Sample Dataframe
from pyspark.sql.types import *
df=spark.createDataFrame([(1,"[{'code':'1234','name':'manoj'},{'code':'124','name':'kumar'},{'code':'4567','name':'dhakad'}]",),(2,"[{'code':'97248','name':'joe'},{'code':'2424','name':'alice'},{'code':'464','name':'bob'}]",)],["id","classification",])

//df will be below
+---+--------------------+
| id|      classification|
+---+--------------------+
|  1|[{'code':'1234','...|
|  2|[{'code':'97248',...|
+---+--------------------+

//here is schema of above df
root
    |-- id: long (nullable = true)
    |-- classification: string (nullable = true) 


//df after converting classification column to the struct type and selecting only code.

schema = ArrayType(StructType([StructField('code', StringType()), StructField('name', StringType())]))
df1=df.withColumn('classification',from_json(col("classification"),schema=schema))

df2=df1.withColumn("code",col("classification.code"))

+---+--------------------+------------------+
| id|      classification|              code|
+---+--------------------+------------------+
|  1|[[1234,manoj], [1...| [1234, 124, 4567]|
|  2|[[97248,joe], [24...|[97248, 2424, 464]|
+---+--------------------+------------------+

//Here, I am going to select id and while exploding code column

df3=df2.select(col("id"),explode(col("code")))
df3.show()


//df3 output
+---+-----+
| id|  col|
+---+-----+
|  1| 1234|
|  1|  124|
|  1| 4567|
|  2|97248|
|  2| 2424|
|  2|  464|
+---+-----+