apache/incubator-spark — pull request #576 by laserson (2014-02-10 18:36:16+00:00)
Title: Added parquetFileAsJSON to read Parquet data into JSON strings

This function makes it incredibly easy to read Parquet data especially with PySpark. Is there any interest in this? It requires pulling in some Parquet dependencies, and adding some Parquet jars to SPARK_CLASSPATH.