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[Parquet] Implement Variant type support in Parquet #6736

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alamb opened this issue Nov 15, 2024 · 1 comment
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[Parquet] Implement Variant type support in Parquet #6736

alamb opened this issue Nov 15, 2024 · 1 comment
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alamb commented Nov 15, 2024

Is your feature request related to a problem or challenge? Please describe what you are trying to do.
Parquet recently adopted the Variant type from Spark: https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/blob/master/VariantEncoding.md

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I would like to implement variant support in parquet-rs

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I am not sure if any other parquet implementations have implemented this yet / if there are example parquet files. I will attempt to find out

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There's an implementation in Spark (try here for starters) but when I last looked ~two months ago there was no binary test data; only some round trips via JSON.

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