Quick way to delete empty column [PySpark]

Is there a easy way to drop empty column of a huge dataset (300+ col >100k row) in pyspark ? such as df.dropna(axis=1,how='all') in Python

Yes, you can simply use the answer from here. I've added a threshold parameter to it:

import pyspark.sql.functions as F

# Sample data
df = pd.DataFrame({'x1': ['a', '1', '2'],
                   'x2': ['b', None, '2'],
                   'x3': ['c', '0', '3'] })
df = sqlContext.createDataFrame(df)
df.show()

def drop_null_columns(df, threshold=0):
    """
    This function drops all columns which contain null values.
    :param df: A PySpark DataFrame
    """
    null_counts = df.select([F.count(F.when(F.col(c).isNull(), c)).alias(c) for c in df.columns]).collect()[0].asDict()
    to_drop = [k for k, v in null_counts.items() if v > threshold]
    df = df.drop(*to_drop)
    return df

# Drops column b2, because it contains null values
drop_null_columns(df).show()

Output

+---+---+
| x1| x3|
+---+---+
|  a|  c|
|  1|  0|
|  2|  3|
+---+---+

Column x2 has been dropped.

You can use threshold=df.count() to while using it