Scala convert WrappedArray or Array[Any] to Array[String] - arrays

Question

I've been trying to convert an RDD to a dataframe. For that, the types need to be defined and not Any. I'm using spark MLLib PrefixSpan, that's where freqSequence.sequence is from. I start with a dataframe that contains Session_IDs, views and purchases as String-Arrays:
viewsPurchasesGrouped: org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame =
[session_id: decimal(29,0), view_product_ids: array[string], purchase_product_ids: array[string]]
I then calculate frequent patterns and need them in a dataframe so I can write them to a Hive table.
val viewsPurchasesRddString = viewsPurchasesGrouped.map( row => Array(Array(row(1)), Array(row(2)) ))
val prefixSpan = new PrefixSpan()
.setMinSupport(0.001)
.setMaxPatternLength(2)
val model = prefixSpan.run(viewsPurchasesRddString)
val freqSequencesRdd = sc.parallelize(model.freqSequences.collect())
case class FreqSequences(views: Array[String], purchases: Array[String], support: Long)
val viewsPurchasesDf = freqSequencesRdd.map( fs =>
{
val views = fs.sequence(0)(0)
val purchases = fs.sequence(1)(0)
val freq = fs.freq
FreqSequences(views, purchases, freq)
}
)
viewsPurchasesDf.toDF() // optional
When I try to run this, views and purchases are "Any" instead of "Array[String]". I've desperately tried to convert them around, but the best I get is Array[Any]. I think I need to map the contents to a String, I've tried e.g. this: How to get an element in WrappedArray: result of Dataset.select("x").collect()? and this: How to cast a WrappedArray[WrappedArray[Float]] to Array[Array[Float]] in spark (scala) and thousands of other Stackoverflow questions...
I really don't know how to solve this. I guess I'm already converting the initial dataframe/RDD to much, but can't understand where.

Answer 1

I think the problem is that you have a DataFrame, which retains no static type information. When you take an item out of a Row, you have to tell it explicitly which type you expect to get.
Untested, but inferred from the information you gave:
import scala.collection.mutable.WrappedArray
val viewsPurchasesRddString = viewsPurchasesGrouped.map( row =>
Array(
Array(row.getAs[WrappedArray[String]](1).toArray),
Array(row.getAs[WrappedArray[String]](2).toArray)
)
)

Answer 2

I solved the problem. For reference, this works:
val viewsPurchasesRddString = viewsPurchasesGrouped.map( row =>
Array(
row.getSeq[Long](1).toArray,
row.getSeq[Long](2).toArray
)
)
val prefixSpan = new PrefixSpan()
.setMinSupport(0.001)
.setMaxPatternLength(2)
val model = prefixSpan.run(viewsPurchasesRddString)
case class FreqSequences(views: Long, purchases: Long, frequence: Long)
val ps_frequences = model.freqSequences.filter(fs => fs.sequence.length > 1).map( fs =>
{
val views = fs.sequence(0)(0)
val purchases = fs.sequence(1)(0)
val freq = fs.freq
FreqSequences(views, purchases, freq)
}
)
ps_frequences.toDF()