add support for dictionary field type as pyarrow map array #13
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issue
Need support for python's
dictionary
type to convert pydantic object to pyarrow.e.g.
change
If a pydantic field is defined as a
Dict
, convert topyarrow.MapType
[definition].MapType is the closest pyarrow data type to the Dict type. However, it will convert to a tuple upon deserialization (from pyarrow to vanilla python).
https://arrow.apache.org/docs/python/data.html#map-arrays
note: this is a rather naive approach. open to suggestions... by default, pyarrow will try to use
pyarrow.StructScalar
. However, this will not work if inferring the schema of a Dict of unknown size.test
assert the additional logic makes sense. assert the new test case passes.