[SPARK-4051] [SQL] [PySpark] Convert Row into dictionary

Added a method to Row to turn row into dict:

```
>>> row = Row(a=1)
>>> row.asDict()
{'a': 1}
```

Author: Davies Liu <davies@databricks.com>

Closes #2896 from davies/dict and squashes the following commits:

8d97366 [Davies Liu] convert Row into dict

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/python/pyspark/sql.py b/python/pyspark/sql.py
index b31a82f9b1..7daf306f68 100644
--- a/python/pyspark/sql.py
+++ b/python/pyspark/sql.py
@@ -883,6 +883,10 @@ def _create_cls(dataType):
         # create property for fast access
         locals().update(_create_properties(dataType.fields))
 
+        def asDict(self):
+            """ Return as a dict """
+            return dict(zip(self.__FIELDS__, self))
+
         def __repr__(self):
             # call collect __repr__ for nested objects
             return ("Row(%s)" % ", ".join("%s=%r" % (n, getattr(self, n))
@@ -1466,6 +1470,14 @@ class Row(tuple):
         else:
             raise ValueError("No args or kwargs")
 
+    def asDict(self):
+        """
+        Return as an dict
+        """
+        if not hasattr(self, "__FIELDS__"):
+            raise TypeError("Cannot convert a Row class into dict")
+        return dict(zip(self.__FIELDS__, self))
+
     # let obect acs like class
     def __call__(self, *args):
         """create new Row object"""