pyspark.sql.functions.forall#

pyspark.sql.functions.forall(col, f)[source]#

Returns whether a predicate holds for every element in the array.

New in version 3.1.0.

Changed in version 3.4.0: Supports Spark Connect.

Parameters
colColumn or str

name of column or expression

ffunction

(x: Column) -> Column: ... returning the Boolean expression. Can use methods of Column, functions defined in pyspark.sql.functions and Scala UserDefinedFunctions. Python UserDefinedFunctions are not supported (SPARK-27052).

Returns
Column

True if “all” elements of an array evaluates to True when passed as an argument to given function and False otherwise.

Examples

>>> df = spark.createDataFrame(
...     [(1, ["bar"]), (2, ["foo", "bar"]), (3, ["foobar", "foo"])],
...     ("key", "values")
... )
>>> df.select(forall("values", lambda x: x.rlike("foo")).alias("all_foo")).show()
+-------+
|all_foo|
+-------+
|  false|
|  false|
|   true|
+-------+