scala> val a = Seq(("a", 2),("b",3)).toDF("name","score")
a: org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame = [name: string, score: int]
scala> a.show()
+----+-----+
|name|score|
+----+-----+
| a| 2|
| b| 3|
+----+-----+
scala> a.withColumn("bit", lit(-999)).show
+----+-----+----+
|name|score| bit|
+----+-----+----+
| a| 2|-1|
| b| 3|-1|
+----+-----+----+
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32788322/how-to-add-a-constant-column-in-a-spark-dataframe