CREATE FUNCTION

Description

The CREATE FUNCTION statement is used to create a temporary or permanent function in Spark. Temporary functions are scoped at a session level where as permanent functions are created in the persistent catalog and are made available to all sessions. The resources specified in the USING clause are made available to all executors when they are executed for the first time. In addition to the SQL interface, spark allows users to create custom user defined scalar and aggregate functions using Scala, Python and Java APIs. Please refer to Scalar UDFs and UDAFs for more information.

Syntax

CREATE [ OR REPLACE ] [ TEMPORARY ] FUNCTION [ IF NOT EXISTS ]
    function_name AS class_name [ resource_locations ]

Parameters

Examples

-- 1. Create a simple UDF `SimpleUdf` that increments the supplied integral value by 10.
--    import org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.UDF;
--    public class SimpleUdf extends UDF {
--      public int evaluate(int value) {
--        return value + 10;
--      }
--    }
-- 2. Compile and place it in a JAR file called `SimpleUdf.jar` in /tmp.

-- Create a table called `test` and insert two rows.
CREATE TABLE test(c1 INT);
INSERT INTO test VALUES (1), (2);

-- Create a permanent function called `simple_udf`. 
CREATE FUNCTION simple_udf AS 'SimpleUdf'
    USING JAR '/tmp/SimpleUdf.jar';

-- Verify that the function is in the registry.
SHOW USER FUNCTIONS;
+------------------+
|          function|
+------------------+
|default.simple_udf|
+------------------+

-- Invoke the function. Every selected value should be incremented by 10.
SELECT simple_udf(c1) AS function_return_value FROM test;
+---------------------+
|function_return_value|
+---------------------+
|                   11|
|                   12|
+---------------------+

-- Created a temporary function.
CREATE TEMPORARY FUNCTION simple_temp_udf AS 'SimpleUdf' 
    USING JAR '/tmp/SimpleUdf.jar';

-- Verify that the newly created temporary function is in the registry.
-- Please note that the temporary function does not have a qualified
-- database associated with it.
SHOW USER FUNCTIONS;
+------------------+
|          function|
+------------------+
|default.simple_udf|
|   simple_temp_udf|
+------------------+

-- 1. Modify `SimpleUdf`'s implementation to add supplied integral value by 20.
--    import org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.UDF;
  
--    public class SimpleUdfR extends UDF {
--      public int evaluate(int value) {
--        return value + 20;
--      }
--    }
-- 2. Compile and place it in a jar file called `SimpleUdfR.jar` in /tmp.

-- Replace the implementation of `simple_udf`
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION simple_udf AS 'SimpleUdfR'
    USING JAR '/tmp/SimpleUdfR.jar';

-- Invoke the function. Every selected value should be incremented by 20.
SELECT simple_udf(c1) AS function_return_value FROM test;
+---------------------+
|function_return_value|
+---------------------+
|                   21|
|                   22|
+---------------------+