st_geogfromewkt

Important

This feature is in Public Preview.

Parses an Extended Well-Known Text (EWKT)

description of a geography and returns the corresponding Geography value. Only SRID 4326 is supported.

For the corresponding Databricks SQL function, see st_geogfromewkt function.

Syntax

from pyspark.databricks.sql import functions as dbf

dbf.st_geogfromewkt(col=<col>)

Parameters

Parameter Type Description
col pyspark.sql.Column or str A string value, representing a geography in Extended WKT (EWKT)

format. |

Notes

The SRID of the returned Geography value is 4326.

The function returns None if the input is None.

Examples

from pyspark.databricks.sql import functions as dbf
df = spark.createDataFrame([('SRID=4326;POINT Z (1 2 3)',)], ['ewkt'])
df.select(dbf.st_asewkt(dbf.st_geogfromewkt('ewkt')).alias('result')).collect()
[Row(result='SRID=4326;POINT Z (1 2 3)')]