From 61b550376c66c48619394fa5f3acad5738bf84bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: brijrajk <22271048+brijrajk@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:14:36 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] [SPARK-57418][DOCS] Add singleVariantColumn option to CSV,
 JSON, and XML data source options tables

---
 docs/sql-data-sources-csv.md  | 6 ++++++
 docs/sql-data-sources-json.md | 6 ++++++
 docs/sql-data-sources-xml.md  | 7 +++++++
 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/sql-data-sources-csv.md b/docs/sql-data-sources-csv.md
index 8008bc562082c..a88b4ab149860 100644
--- a/docs/sql-data-sources-csv.md
+++ b/docs/sql-data-sources-csv.md
@@ -216,6 +216,12 @@ Data source options of CSV can be set via:
     <td>Allows renaming the new field having malformed string created by <code>PERMISSIVE</code> mode. This overrides <code>spark.sql.columnNameOfCorruptRecord</code>.</td>
     <td>read</td>
   </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td><code>singleVariantColumn</code></td>
+    <td>(none)</td>
+    <td>If specified, the entire CSV record is parsed and stored as a single column of <code>VariantType</code> with the given column name, instead of being split into individual fields.</td>
+    <td>read</td>
+  </tr>
   <tr>
     <td><code>multiLine</code></td>
     <td>false</td>
diff --git a/docs/sql-data-sources-json.md b/docs/sql-data-sources-json.md
index e5c86054c09be..e9449ee17a4df 100644
--- a/docs/sql-data-sources-json.md
+++ b/docs/sql-data-sources-json.md
@@ -207,6 +207,12 @@ Data source options of JSON can be set via:
     <td>Allows inferring of <code>TimestampType</code> and <code>TimestampNTZType</code> from strings that match the timestamp patterns defined by the <code>timestampFormat</code> and <code>timestampNTZFormat</code> options respectively.</td>
     <td>read</td>
   </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td><code>singleVariantColumn</code></td>
+    <td>(none)</td>
+    <td>If specified, the entire JSON record is parsed and stored as a single column of <code>VariantType</code> with the given column name, instead of being split into individual fields.</td>
+    <td>read</td>
+  </tr>
   <tr>
     <td><code>enableDateTimeParsingFallback</code></td>
     <td>Enabled if the time parser policy has legacy settings or if no custom date or timestamp pattern was provided.</td>
diff --git a/docs/sql-data-sources-xml.md b/docs/sql-data-sources-xml.md
index 949e6239e52ba..0dd2a0dde3be2 100644
--- a/docs/sql-data-sources-xml.md
+++ b/docs/sql-data-sources-xml.md
@@ -105,6 +105,13 @@ Data source options of XML can be set via:
       <td>read</td>
   </tr>
 
+  <tr>
+      <td><code>singleVariantColumn</code></td>
+      <td>(none)</td>
+      <td>If specified, the entire XML record is parsed and stored as a single column of <code>VariantType</code> with the given column name, instead of being split into individual fields.</td>
+      <td>read</td>
+  </tr>
+
   <tr>
     <td><code>attributePrefix</code></td>
     <td><code>_</code></td>