Exploding nested Struct in Spark dataframe

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In my opinion the most elegant solution is to star expand a Struct using a select operator as shown below:

var explodedDf2 = explodedDf.select("department.*","*")

https://docs.databricks.com/spark/latest/spark-sql/complex-types.html

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