Module schema

Parquet schema definitions and methods to print and parse schema.

• SchemaDescriptor describes the data types of the columns stored in a file
• ColumnDescriptor: Describes the schema of a single (leaf) column.
• ColumnPath: Represents the location of a column in the schema (e.g. a nested field)

Parquet distinguishes between “logical” and “physical” data types. For instance, strings (logical type) are stored as byte arrays (physical type). Likewise, temporal types like dates, times, timestamps, etc. (logical type) are stored as integers (physical type).

Example

use parquet::{
    basic::{ConvertedType, Repetition, Type as PhysicalType},
    schema::{parser, printer, types::Type},
};
use std::sync::Arc;

// Create the following schema:
//
// message schema {
//   OPTIONAL BYTE_ARRAY a (UTF8);
//   REQUIRED INT32 b;
// }

let field_a = Type::primitive_type_builder("a", PhysicalType::BYTE_ARRAY)
    .with_converted_type(ConvertedType::UTF8)
    .with_repetition(Repetition::OPTIONAL)
    .build()
    .unwrap();

let field_b = Type::primitive_type_builder("b", PhysicalType::INT32)
    .with_repetition(Repetition::REQUIRED)
    .build()
    .unwrap();

let schema = Type::group_type_builder("schema")
    .with_fields(vec![Arc::new(field_a), Arc::new(field_b)])
    .build()
    .unwrap();

let mut buf = Vec::new();

// Print schema into buffer
printer::print_schema(&mut buf, &schema);

// Parse schema from the string
let string_schema = String::from_utf8(buf).unwrap();
let parsed_schema = parser::parse_message_type(&string_schema).unwrap();

assert_eq!(schema, parsed_schema);

Modules

• parser
  Parquet schema parser. Provides methods to parse and validate string message type into Parquet Type.
• printer
  Parquet schema printer. Provides methods to print Parquet file schema and list file metadata.
• types
  Contains structs and methods to build Parquet schema and schema descriptors.
• visitor
  Utilities to traverse against various parquet type.