Trying to write DataFrame to csv file

Question

i am trying to write my DataFrame to CSV file. I tried this

df.write.format("com.databricks.spark.csv").option("header", true)
  .option("codec", "org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.GzipCodec").save("myFile.csv")  

but it gives me the error :

java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: CSV data source does not support array<struct<columnName:columntype...

if i however show the DataFrame on the console, it prints fine. How can i write to a csv or even a text file would do.

Thanks!!

EDIT

I didn't need to write everything out. I selected out the rows needed and got it working thanks for the help though!

Answer 1

You dataframe has a complex column (an Array of structs it seems like). With csv you can only have simple column types like String, Int, Date, etc, but no arrays or structs.