cannot load parquet file (Parquet type not supported: INT32 (UINT_8);) with pyspark

Question

I'm trying to load parquet file stored in hdfs.
This is my schema:

name   type
----------------
ID     BIGINT
point  SMALLINT
check  TINYINT

What i want to execute is:

df = sqlContext.read.parquet('path')

and I got this error:

Caused by: org.apache.spark.sql.AnalysisException: Parquet type not supported: INT32 (UINT_8);
    at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.parquet.ParquetToSparkSchemaConverter.typeNotSupported$1(ParquetSchemaConverter.scala:101)
    at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.parquet.ParquetToSparkSchemaConverter.convertPrimitiveField(ParquetSchemaConverter.scala:137)
    at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.parquet.ParquetToSparkSchemaConverter.convertField(ParquetSchemaConverter.scala:89)
    at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.parquet.ParquetToSparkSchemaConverter$$anonfun$1.apply(ParquetSchemaConverter.scala:68)
    at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.parquet.ParquetToSparkSchemaConverter$$anonfun$1.apply(ParquetSchemaConverter.scala:65)
    at scala.collection.TraversableLike$$anonfun$map$1.apply(TraversableLike.scala:234)
    at scala.collection.TraversableLike$$anonfun$map$1.apply(TraversableLike.scala:234)
    at scala.collection.Iterator$class.foreach(Iterator.scala:891)
    at scala.collection.AbstractIterator.foreach(Iterator.scala:1334)
    at scala.collection.IterableLike$class.foreach(IterableLike.scala:72)
    at scala.collection.AbstractIterable.foreach(Iterable.scala:54)
    at scala.collection.TraversableLike$class.map(TraversableLike.scala:234)
    at scala.collection.AbstractTraversable.map(Traversable.scala:104)
    at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.parquet.ParquetToSparkSchemaConverter.org$apache$spark$sql$execution$datasources$parquet$ParquetToSparkSchemaConverter$$convert(ParquetSchemaConverter.scala:65)
    at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.parquet.ParquetToSparkSchemaConverter.convert(ParquetSchemaConverter.scala:62)
    at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.parquet.ParquetFileFormat$$anonfun$readSchemaFromFooter$2.apply(ParquetFileFormat.scala:664)
    at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.parquet.ParquetFileFormat$$anonfun$readSchemaFromFooter$2.apply(ParquetFileFormat.scala:664)
    at scala.Option.getOrElse(Option.scala:121)
    at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.parquet.ParquetFileFormat$.readSchemaFromFooter(ParquetFileFormat.scala:664)
    at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.parquet.ParquetFileFormat$$anonfun$9.apply(ParquetFileFormat.scala:621)
    at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.parquet.ParquetFileFormat$$anonfun$9.apply(ParquetFileFormat.scala:603)
    at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD$$anonfun$mapPartitions$1$$anonfun$apply$23.apply(RDD.scala:801)
    at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD$$anonfun$mapPartitions$1$$anonfun$apply$23.apply(RDD.scala:801)
    at org.apache.spark.rdd.MapPartitionsRDD.compute(MapPartitionsRDD.scala:52)
    at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.computeOrReadCheckpoint(RDD.scala:324)
    at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.iterator(RDD.scala:288)
    at org.apache.spark.scheduler.ResultTask.runTask(ResultTask.scala:90)
    at org.apache.spark.scheduler.Task.run(Task.scala:121)
    at org.apache.spark.executor.Executor$TaskRunner$$anonfun$11.apply(Executor.scala:407)
    at org.apache.spark.util.Utils$.tryWithSafeFinally(Utils.scala:1408)
    at org.apache.spark.executor.Executor$TaskRunner.run(Executor.scala:413)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
    ... 1 more

I tried to solve this problem, and I found spark parquet does not support some types.
Then is there no way to load my file? Making new file is the only way? I spent long long time because of this problem...

Answer 1

Spark parquet doesn't support some types like uint. My table has uint types, so that was the matter.
I solved this problem with this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/62654180/8578220
first, made new schema:

from pyspark.sql.types import *        
newSchema = StructType([ StructField("ID", LongType(), True),
                         StructField("point", IntegerType(), True),
                         StructField("check", IntegerType(), True) ])

and open the parquet file with this schema

df = hc.read.option("mergeSchema", "true").schema(newSchema).parquet(path)

It works on me.