Initial array support

src/JSONLines.jl

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import Base.Threads.@spawn
 
 export readfile,
     readlazy,
+    readarrays,
     reset!,
     writefile,
     @MStructType,
@@ -90,4 +91,20 @@ function writefile(file, data, mode = "w")
 	close(fi)
 end
 
+"""
+    readarrays(file; namesline = 1, nrows = nothing, skip = nothing) 
+
+Read a JSONLines file in which the rows are arrays. 
+
+* `file`: JSONLines file with JSON arrays (`[val1, val2, ...]`) as rows
+* Keyword Arguments:
+    * `namesline = 1`: Row that contains the names of the columns
+    * `nrows = nothing`: Number of rows to load
+    * `skip = nothing`: Number of rows to skip before loading
+"""
+function readarrays(file; namesline = 1, nrows = nothing, skip = nothing)
+    tups = getarrays(file, namesline, nrows, skip)
+    return tups
+end
+
 end # Module 

src/file.jl

@@ -12,6 +12,50 @@ function getfile(file, nlines, skip, usemmap)
     return ff
 end
 
+function getarrays(file, namesline, nlines, skip)
+    if isnothing(nlines)
+        nlines = _INT_MAX
+    end
+    if isnothing(skip)
+        skip = 0
+    end
+    fi = Mmap.mmap(file)
+    len = lastindex(fi)
+    if namesline > 1
+        namesbeg = skiprows(fi, namesline-1, 0)
+    else
+        namesbeg = 0
+    end
+    namesr = detectarrayrow(fi, namesbeg)
+    names = tuple(Symbol.(JSON3.read(fi[namesr[1]:namesr[2]]))...)
+    rowindices = Pair{Int, Int}[]
+    if skip > 0
+        filestart = skiprows(fi, skip, namesr[2])
+        if filestart == len
+            return NamedTuple{names}(tuple(fill(missing, length(names))...))
+        end
+    else
+        filestart = namesr[2]
+    end
+    row = detectarrayrow(fi, filestart)
+    if isrow(row)
+        push!(rowindices, row)
+    end
+    if iseof(row, len)
+        return [NamedTuple{names}(tuple(JSON3.read(fi[r[1]:r[2]])...)) for r in rowindices]
+    end
+    for rowi in 2:nlines
+        row = detectarrayrow(fi, rowindices[rowi-1][2])
+        if isrow(row)
+            push!(rowindices, row)
+        end
+        if iseof(row, len)
+            return [NamedTuple{names}(tuple(JSON3.read(fi[r[1]:r[2]])...)) for r in rowindices]
+        end
+    end
+    return [NamedTuple{names}(tuple(JSON3.read(fi[r[1]:r[2]])...)) for r in rowindices]
+end
+
 # Read everything into ram
 function readstr(file)
     fi = read(file)

src/helpers.jl

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 const _LSEP = UInt8('\n')
 const _EOL = UInt8('}')
 const _BOL = UInt8('{')
+const _ABOL = UInt8('[')
 const _INT_MAX = typemax(Int)
 
 # Detect space in UInt8
@@ -22,6 +23,19 @@ function detectrow(file::Vector{UInt8}, prevend::Int)
     return rowstart => rowend
 end
 
+function detectarrayrow(file::Vector{UInt8}, prevend::Int)
+    searchstart = nextind(file, prevend)
+    rowstart = findnext(isequal(_ABOL), file, searchstart)
+    rowend = findnext(isequal(_LSEP), file, searchstart)
+    if isnothing(rowstart)
+        rowstart = lastindex(file)
+    end
+    if isnothing(rowend)
+        rowend = lastindex(file)
+    end
+    return rowstart => rowend
+end
+
 function skiprows(file::Vector{UInt8}, n::Int, prevend::Int = 0)
     ind = nextind(file, prevend)
     for _ in 1:n

test/Project.toml

@@ -2,4 +2,5 @@
 DataFrames = "a93c6f00-e57d-5684-b7b6-d8193f3e46c0"
 Pipe = "b98c9c47-44ae-5843-9183-064241ee97a0"
 RDatasets = "ce6b1742-4840-55fa-b093-852dadbb1d8b"
+Tables = "bd369af6-aec1-5ad0-b16a-f7cc5008161c"
 Test = "8dfed614-e22c-5e08-85e1-65c5234f0b40"

test/runtests.jl

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 using JSONLines
-using Test, DataFrames, RDatasets, Pipe
+using Test, DataFrames, RDatasets, Pipe, Tables
 
 full_web = readfile("testfiles/jsonlwebsite.jsonl") |> DataFrame;
 nrow_fw = nrow(full_web)
@@ -45,6 +45,12 @@ end
     @test [x for x in readlazy("testfiles/escapedeol.jsonl")]  |> DataFrame == escaped
 end
 
+@testset "Read arrays" begin
+    @test Tables.columntable(readarrays("testfiles/array.jsonl", namesline = 2)).a[2] == 4
+    @test Tables.columntable(readarrays("testfiles/array.jsonl", skip = 1, namesline = 2)).a[1] == 4
+    @test Tables.columntable(readarrays("testfiles/jsonlwebsitearray.jsonl")).Score == [24, 29, 14, 19]
+end
+
 @testset "select" begin
     webl = @pipe readlazy("testfiles/jsonlwebsite.jsonl", returnparsed = false) |> JSONLines.select(_, :name) |> DataFrame
     @test webl == full_web[:, [:name]]
@@ -179,6 +185,7 @@ end
     @MStructType EscType name
     @test readfile("testfiles/escapedeol.jsonl", structtype = EscType) |> DataFrame == escaped[:, [:name]]
 end
+
 # Cleanup
 rm("full_web.jsonl")
 rm("full_mtcars.jsonl")

test/testfiles/array.jsonl

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+% My comment
+["a", "bcd", "efg"]
+[1, 2, 3]
+[4, 5, 6]

test/testfiles/jsonlwebsitearray.jsonl

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+["Name", "Session", "Score", "Completed"]
+["Gilbert", "2013", 24, true]
+["Alexa", "2013", 29, true]
+["May", "2012B", 14, false]
+["Deloise", "2012A", 19, true]