st_geometrytype

Important

Support for GEOGRAPHY values is in Public Preview. Support for GEOMETRY values is generally available.

Returns the type of the input Geography or Geometry value as a string.

For the corresponding Databricks SQL function, see st_geometrytype function.

Syntax

from pyspark.databricks.sql import functions as dbf

dbf.st_geometrytype(col=<col>)

Parameters

Parameter Type Description
col pyspark.sql.Column or str A Geography or Geometry value.

Examples

from pyspark.databricks.sql import functions as dbf
df = spark.createDataFrame([('POINT(4 5)',)], ['wkt'])
df.select(dbf.st_geometrytype(dbf.st_geomfromtext('wkt')).alias('result')).collect()
[Row(result='ST_Point')]