how to have framer read json timestamps
scala> val regex = "([0-9\\-TZ\\.:]+) (\\{.*)" regex: String = ([0-9\-TZ\.:]+) (\{.*) scala> val dff = df.withColumn("tstamp", regexp_extract('json_content, regex, 1)).withColumn("json", regexp_extract('json_content, regex, 2)).drop("json_content") dff: org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame = [country: string, city: string ... 2 more fields] scala> dff.show(false) +-------+-------+------------------------+----------------------------------+ |country|city |tstamp |json | +-------+-------+------------------------+----------------------------------+ |america|chicago|2019-06-28T00:00:00.000Z|{ "a": 123, "b": "456", "c": 789 }| |india |mumbai |2019-06-28T00:00:00.000Z|{ "a": 123, "b": "456", "c": 789 }| +-------+-------+------------------------+----------------------------------+