How do I pass parameters to spark.sql(""" """)?

Question

I'd like to pass a string to spark.sql

Here is my query

mydf = spark.sql("SELECT * FROM MYTABLE WHERE TIMESTAMP BETWEEN '2020-04-01' AND '2020-04-08') 

I'd like to pass a string for the date.

I tried this code

val = '2020-04-08'

s"spark.sql("SELECT * FROM MYTABLE WHERE TIMESTAMP  BETWEEN $val  AND '2020-04-08'

Answer 1

Try with Python string formatting {} and .format(val) as $val is in scala.

val = '2020-04-08'

spark.sql("SELECT * FROM MYTABLE WHERE TIMESTAMP  BETWEEN {}  AND '2020-04-08'".format(val)).show()

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Example:

In Pyspark:

spark.sql("select * from tmp").show()
#+----+---+
#|name| id|
#+----+---+
#|   a|  1|
#|   b|  2|
#+----+---+

id='1'

spark.sql("select * from tmp where id={}".format(id)).show()
#+----+---+
#|name| id|
#+----+---+
#|   a|  1|
#+----+---+

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In Scala:

Use string interpolation to substitute the values of variable

val id=1
spark.sql(s"select * from tmp where id=$id").show()
//+----+---+
//|name| id|
//+----+---+
//|   a|  1|
//+----+---+