Create DataSet using SparkSession about 4mc HOT 1 OPEN

For sure there are several methods to achieve that, and to be honest I'm not sure I'm giving you best solution. Unfortunately at this time I don't have time to dig deeper, but:
what about, you load the RDD using a SQLContext, which could be pre-filtered etc etc, then you create a bean class that can be used to quickly map to Dataset by leveraging convention over configuration, like e.g:
Dataset devices = sqlContext.createDataFrame(ratingsRDD, DeviceEntry.class);

from 4mc.