[SPARK-41833][SPARK-41881][SPARK-41815][CONNECT][PYTHON] Make DataFrame.collect
handle None/NaN/Array/Binary porperly
#39386
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What changes were proposed in this pull request?
Existing
DataFrame.collect
directly collect coming Arrow batches into a Pandas DataFrame, and then convert each series into a Row, which is problematic since it can not correctly handle None/NaN/Arrays/Binary/etc.This PR refactor
DataFrame.collect
by directly building rows from the raw Arrow Table, in order to support:1, None/NaN values;
2, ArrayType
3, BinaryType
Why are the changes needed?
To be consistent with PySpark
Does this PR introduce any user-facing change?
yes
How was this patch tested?
enabled doctests