snowflake.snowpark.functions.to_variant¶

snowflake.snowpark.functions.to_variant(e: Union[Column, str]) → Column[source]¶

Converts any value to a VARIANT value or NULL (if input is NULL).

Example:

>>> df = session.create_dataframe([1, 2, 3, 4], schema=['a'])
>>> df_conv = df.select(to_variant(col("a")).as_("ans"))
>>> df_conv.collect()
[Row(ANS='1'), Row(ANS='2'), Row(ANS='3'), Row(ANS='4')]

After conversion via to_variant, another variant dataframe can be merged.

>>> from snowflake.snowpark.types import VariantType, StructField, StructType
>>> from snowflake.snowpark import Row
>>> schema = StructType([StructField("a", VariantType())])
>>> df_other = session.create_dataframe([Row(a=10), Row(a='test'), Row(a={'a': 10, 'b': 20}), Row(a=[1, 2, 3])], schema=schema)
>>> df_conv.union(df_other).select(typeof(col("ans")).as_("ans")).collect()
[Row(ANS='INTEGER'), Row(ANS='INTEGER'), Row(ANS='INTEGER'), Row(ANS='INTEGER'), Row(ANS='INTEGER'), Row(ANS='VARCHAR'), Row(ANS='OBJECT'), Row(ANS='ARRAY')]

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