How to read a JSON file in Spark Scala?

Question

Can anyone tell me how to read a JSON file in Spark Scala?

Answer 1

The following command can be used to read a JSON file using Spark-Scala:

val jsonData = sqlContext.read.json(""path-to-json-file.json"")"

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