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Due to a breaking change in Apache Sedona 1.4.0 to the SQL type of GeometryUDT (SEDONA-205) as well as the serialization format of geometry values (SEDONA-207), Parquet files containing geometry columns written by Apache Sedona 1.3.1 or earlier cannot be read by Apache Sedona 1.4.0 or later. For parquet files written by "parquet" format when using Apache Sedona 1.3.1-incubating or earlier: 
df.write.format("parquet").save("path/to/parquet/files")
Reading such files with Apache Sedona 1.4.0 or later using spark.read.format("parquet").load("path/to/parquet/files") will result in an exception: 
24/01/08 12:52:56 ERROR Executor: Exception in task 0.0 in stage 12.0 (TID 11)
org.apache.spark.sql.AnalysisException: Invalid Spark read type: expected required group geom (LIST) {
  repeated group list {
    required int32 element (INTEGER(8,true));
  }
} to be list type but found Some(BinaryType)
    at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.parquet.ParquetSchemaConverter$.checkConversionRequirement(ParquetSchemaConverter.scala:745)
    at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.parquet.ParquetToSparkSchemaConverter.$anonfun$convertGroupField$3(ParquetSchemaConverter.scala:343)
    at scala.Option.fold(Option.scala:251)
    at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.parquet.ParquetToSparkSchemaConverter.convertGroupField(ParquetSchemaConverter.scala:324)
    at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.parquet.ParquetToSparkSchemaConverter.convertField(ParquetSchemaConverter.scala:188)
    at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.parquet.ParquetToSparkSchemaConverter.$anonfun$convertInternal$3(ParquetSchemaConverter.scala:147)
    at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.parquet.ParquetToSparkSchemaConverter.$anonfun$convertInternal$3$adapted(ParquetSchemaConverter.scala:117)
    at scala.collection.TraversableLike.$anonfun$map$1(TraversableLike.scala:286)
    at scala.collection.immutable.Range.foreach(Range.scala:158)
    at scala.collection.TraversableLike.map(TraversableLike.scala:286)
    at scala.collection.TraversableLike.map$(TraversableLike.scala:279)
    at scala.collection.AbstractTraversable.map(Traversable.scala:108)
    ...
Since v1.5.1, GeoParquet supports reading legacy Parquet files. you can use "geoparquet" format with the .option("legacyMode", "true") option. Here is an example:
  • Python
  • Scala
  • Java
df = sedona.read.format("geoparquet").option("legacyMode", "true").load("path/to/legacy-parquet-files")