flexible-schema 0.0.1

A simple class to aid in defining flexible schemas for PyArrow datasets.

Flexible Schemas

This package provides a simple metaclass mixin to enable specifying validatable PyArrow schemas with optional columns or while allowing column re-ordering or extra columns.

Installation

pip install flexible_schema

Usage

>>> from flexible_schema import PyArrowSchema
>>> import pyarrow as pa
>>> import datetime
>>> class Data(PyArrowSchema):
...     subject_id: int
...     time: datetime.datetime
...     code: str
...     numeric_value: float | None = None
...     text_value: str | None = None
>>> Data.subject_id_name
'subject_id'
>>> Data.subject_id_dtype
DataType(int64)
>>> Data.time_name
'time'
>>> Data.time_dtype
TimestampType(timestamp[us])
>>> data_tbl = pa.Table.from_pydict({
...     "time": [
...         datetime.datetime(2021, 3, 1),
...         datetime.datetime(2021, 4, 1),
...         datetime.datetime(2021, 5, 1),
...     ],
...     "subject_id": [1, 2, 3],
...     "code": ["A", "B", "C"],
... })
>>> Data.validate(data_tbl)
pyarrow.Table
subject_id: int64
time: timestamp[us]
code: string
numeric_value: float
text_value: string
----
subject_id: [[1,2,3]]
time: [[2021-03-01 00:00:00.000000,2021-04-01 00:00:00.000000,2021-05-01 00:00:00.000000]]
code: [["A","B","C"]]
numeric_value: [[null,null,null]]
text_value: [[null,null,null]]
>>> data_tbl_with_extra = pa.Table.from_pydict({
...     "time": [
...         datetime.datetime(2021, 3, 1),
...         datetime.datetime(2021, 4, 1),
...     ],
...     "subject_id": [4, 5],
...     "extra_1": ["extra1", "extra2"],
...     "extra_2": [452, 11],
...     "code": ["D", "E"],
... })
>>> Data.validate(data_tbl_with_extra)
pyarrow.Table
subject_id: int64
time: timestamp[us]
code: string
numeric_value: float
text_value: string
extra_1: string
extra_2: int64
----
subject_id: [[4,5]]
time: [[2021-03-01 00:00:00.000000,2021-04-01 00:00:00.000000]]
code: [["D","E"]]
numeric_value: [[null,null]]
text_value: [[null,null]]
extra_1: [["extra1","extra2"]]
extra_2: [[452,11]]