Aggregating multiple columns with custom function in Spark

Consider using the struct function to group the columns together before collecting as a list:

import org.apache.spark.sql.functions.{collect_list, struct}
import sqlContext.implicits._

val df = Seq(
  ("john", "tomato", 1.99),
  ("john", "carrot", 0.45),
  ("bill", "apple", 0.99),
  ("john", "banana", 1.29),
  ("bill", "taco", 2.59)
).toDF("name", "food", "price")

df.groupBy($"name")
  .agg(collect_list(struct($"food", $"price")).as("foods"))
  .show(false)

Outputs:

+----+---------------------------------------------+
|name|foods                                        |
+----+---------------------------------------------+
|john|[[tomato,1.99], [carrot,0.45], [banana,1.29]]|
|bill|[[apple,0.99], [taco,2.59]]                  |
+----+---------------------------------------------+