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forall

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

For the corresponding Databricks SQL function, see forall function.

Syntax

Python
from pyspark.databricks.sql import functions as dbf

dbf.forall(col=<col>, f=<f>)

Parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

col

pyspark.sql.Column or str

Name of column or expression.

f

function

A function that returns the Boolean expression.

Returns

pyspark.sql.Column: True if "all" elements of an array evaluates to True when passed as an argument to given function and False otherwise.

Examples

Python
from pyspark.databricks.sql import functions as dbf
df = spark.createDataFrame(
[(1, ["bar"]), (2, ["foo", "bar"]), (3, ["foobar", "foo"])],
("key", "values")
)
df.select(dbf.forall("values", lambda x: x.rlike("foo")).alias("all_foo")).show()
Output
+-------+
|all_foo|
+-------+
| false|
| false|
| true|
+-------+