Parameterized field names

[kylejcaron]

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Is there a way to parameterize the field names? For example, If I'm making a schema to check if data is a panel dataset, I'd like the entity_id column name to be parameterize-able

Here's an example of the dataframe model

# Your code here, if applicable
class PanelSchema(pa.DataFrameModel):

    entity_col: Series[str] = pa.Field(coerce=True, nullable=False)
    date: DateTime = pa.Field(coerce=True, nullable=False)

    class Config:
        unique = ["entity_col", "date"]
        strict = False
        metadata: dict = {}

and here's how I'd like to use it, although open to other patterns that accomplish the same thing.

PanelSchema(entity_col = 'customer_id').validate(data)

As an added question, would Pandera be open to a contrib module? I think an inheritable PanelSchema would be helpful for alot of use cases. For example, multivariate time series, discrete time survival analysis, and cohort datasets can all be framed as panel datasets