dropTempView

Drops the local temporary view with the given view name in the catalog. If the view has been cached before, then it will also be uncached. Returns true if this view is dropped successfully, false otherwise.

Syntax

dropTempView(viewName: str)

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
viewName	str	Name of the temporary view to drop.

Returns

bool

If the temporary view was successfully dropped or not.

Examples

Python

spark.createDataFrame([(1, 1)]).createTempView("my_table")

# Dropping the temporary view.
spark.catalog.dropTempView("my_table")
# True

# Throw an exception if the temporary view does not exist.
spark.table("my_table")
# Traceback (most recent call last):
#     ...
# AnalysisException: ...