read geo spatital data stright from database

[Liorba]

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I know maggalen now supports reading straight from a file as

sqlCtx.read.format("maggalen").load("path")

but unfortunately my data is saved in the a mysql table. is there an option to read straight from the a database?

[harsha2010]

what format is the data stored in mysql as?

[Liorba]

see my response to this: issue