apache/spark — pull request #1598 by davies (2014-07-26 01:16:09+00:00)
Title: [WIP] [SPARK-2010] [PySpark] support nested structure in SchemaRDD

Convert Row in JavaSchemaRDD into Array[Any] and unpickle them as tuple in Python, then convert them into namedtuple when needed.

This will let nested structure can be accessed as object, also it will reduce the size of serialized data and better performance.

PS: The code will be refactored later and more tests will be added.