(postponed, requires upstream fix) add support for UUID

README.md

@@ -78,6 +78,39 @@ List[...] | pa.list_(...) |
 Dict[..., ...] | pa.map_(pa key_type, pa value_type) |
 Enum of str | pa.dictionary(pa.int32(), pa.string()) | 
 Enum of int | pa.int64() |
+UUID (uuid.UUID or pydantic.types.UUID*) | pa.uuid() | SEE NOTE BELOW!
+
+Note on UUIDs: the UUID type is only supported in pyarrow 18.0 and above. However,
+as of pyarrow 19.0, when pyarrow creates a table in eg `pa.Table.from_pylist(objs, schema=schema)`,
+it expects bytes not a uuid.UUID type. Hence, if you are using .model_dump() to create
+the data for pyarrow, you need to add a serializer on your pydantic model to convert to bytes.
+This may be fixed in later versions (see [https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/43855]).
+
+eg (with pyarrow >= 18.0):
+```py
+import uuid
+from typing import Annotated
+
+import pyarrow as pa
+from pydantic import BaseModel, PlainSerializer
+from pydantic_to_pyarrow import get_pyarrow_schema
+
+class ModelWithUuid(BaseModel):
+    uuid: Annotated[uuid.UUID, PlainSerializer(lambda x: x.bytes, return_type=bytes)]
+
+
+schema = get_pyarrow_schema(ModelWithUuid)
+
+model1 = ModelWithUuid(uuid=uuid.uuid1())
+model2 = ModelWithUuid(uuid=uuid.uuid4())
+data = [model1.model_dump(), model2.model_dump()]
+table = pa.Table.from_pylist(data)
+print(table)
+#> pyarrow.Table
+#> uuid: binary
+#> ----
+#> uuid: [[BF206AC0DA4711EF8271EF4F4B7A3587,211C4C5D94C74876AE5E32DBCCDC16C7]]
+```
 
 ## Settings
 

src/pydantic_to_pyarrow/schema.py

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import datetime
 import types
+import uuid
 from decimal import Decimal
 from enum import EnumMeta
 from typing import Any, List, Literal, NamedTuple, Optional, Type, TypeVar, Union, cast
@@ -156,6 +157,18 @@ def _get_enum_type(field_type: Type[Any]) -> pa.DataType:
     raise SchemaCreationError(msg)
 
 
+def _get_uuid_type() -> pa.DataType:
+    # Different branches will execute depending on the pyarrow version
+    # This is tested through nox and python versions, but each one
+    # won't cover both branches. Hence, excluding from coverage.
+    if hasattr(pa, "uuid"):  # pragma: no cover
+        return pa.uuid()
+    else:  # pragma: no cover
+        msg = f"pyarrow version {pa.__version__} does not support pa.uuid() type, "
+        msg += "needs version 18.0 or higher"
+        raise SchemaCreationError(msg)
+
+
 def _is_optional(field_type: Type[Any]) -> bool:
     origin = get_origin(field_type)
     is_python_39_union = origin is Union
@@ -167,14 +180,19 @@ def _is_optional(field_type: Type[Any]) -> bool:
     return type(None) in get_args(field_type)
 
 
-def _get_pyarrow_type(
+# noqa: PLR0911 - ignore until a refactoring can reduce the number of
+# return statements.
+def _get_pyarrow_type(  # noqa: PLR0911
     field_type: Type[Any],
     metadata: List[Any],
     settings: Settings,
 ) -> pa.DataType:
     if field_type in FIELD_MAP:
         return FIELD_MAP[field_type]
 
+    if field_type is uuid.UUID:
+        return _get_uuid_type()
+
     if settings.allow_losing_tz and field_type in LOSING_TZ_TYPES:
         return LOSING_TZ_TYPES[field_type]
 

tests/test_schema.py

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import datetime
 import tempfile
+import uuid
 from decimal import Decimal
 from enum import Enum, auto
 from pathlib import Path
@@ -11,8 +12,12 @@
 import pytest
 from annotated_types import Gt
 from packaging import version
-from pydantic import BaseModel, ConfigDict, Field
+from pydantic import BaseModel, ConfigDict, Field, PlainSerializer
 from pydantic.types import (
+    UUID1,
+    UUID3,
+    UUID4,
+    UUID5,
     AwareDatetime,
     NaiveDatetime,
     PositiveInt,
@@ -592,6 +597,57 @@ class DictModel(BaseModel):
     assert objs == [{"foo": dict(t["foo"])} for t in new_objs]
 
 
+def test_uuid() -> None:
+    # pyarrow 18.0.0+ is required for UUID support
+    # Even then, pyarrow doesn't automatically convert UUIDs to bytes
+    # for the serialization, so we need to do that manually
+    # (https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/43855)
+    as_bytes = PlainSerializer(lambda x: x.bytes, return_type=bytes)
+
+    class ModelWithUUID(BaseModel):
+        foo_0: Annotated[uuid.UUID, as_bytes] = Field(default_factory=uuid.uuid1)
+        foo_1: Annotated[UUID1, as_bytes] = Field(default_factory=uuid.uuid1)
+        foo_3: Annotated[UUID3, as_bytes] = Field(
+            default_factory=lambda: uuid.uuid3(uuid.NAMESPACE_DNS, "pydantic.org")
+        )
+        foo_4: Annotated[UUID4, as_bytes] = Field(default_factory=uuid.uuid4)
+        foo_5: Annotated[UUID5, as_bytes] = Field(
+            default_factory=lambda: uuid.uuid5(uuid.NAMESPACE_DNS, "pydantic.org")
+        )
+
+    if version.Version(pa.__version__) < version.Version("18.0.0"):
+        with pytest.raises(SchemaCreationError) as err:
+            get_pyarrow_schema(ModelWithUUID)
+        assert "needs version 18.0 or higher" in str(err)
+    else:
+        expected = pa.schema(
+            [
+                pa.field("foo_0", pa.uuid(), nullable=False),
+                pa.field("foo_1", pa.uuid(), nullable=False),
+                pa.field("foo_3", pa.uuid(), nullable=False),
+                pa.field("foo_4", pa.uuid(), nullable=False),
+                pa.field("foo_5", pa.uuid(), nullable=False),
+            ]
+        )
+
+        actual = get_pyarrow_schema(ModelWithUUID)
+        assert actual == expected
+
+        objs = [
+            ModelWithUUID().model_dump(),
+            ModelWithUUID().model_dump(),
+        ]
+
+        new_schema, new_objs = _write_pq_and_read(objs, expected)
+        assert new_schema == expected
+        # objs was created with the uuid serializer to bytes,
+        # but pyarrow will read the uuids into UUID objects directly
+        for obj in objs:
+            for key in obj:
+                obj[key] = uuid.UUID(bytes=obj[key])
+        assert new_objs == objs
+
+
 def test_alias() -> None:
     class AliasModel(BaseModel):
         field1: str