// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one // or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file // distributed with this work for additional information // regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file // to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the // "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance // with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at // // http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 // // Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, // software distributed under the License is distributed on an // "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY // KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the // specific language governing permissions and limitations // under the License. #pragma once #include #include "arrow/extension_type.h" #include "arrow/util/visibility.h" namespace arrow::extension { class ARROW_EXPORT VariantArray : public ExtensionArray { public: using ExtensionArray::ExtensionArray; }; /// EXPERIMENTAL: Variant is not yet fully supported. /// /// Variant supports semi-structured objects that can be composed of /// primitives, arrays, and objects, which can be queried by path. /// /// Unshredded variant representation: /// optional group variant_name (VARIANT) { /// required binary metadata; /// required binary value; /// } /// /// To read more about variant encoding, see the variant encoding spec at /// https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/blob/master/VariantEncoding.md /// /// To read more about variant shredding, see the variant shredding spec at /// https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/blob/master/VariantShredding.md class ARROW_EXPORT VariantExtensionType : public ExtensionType { public: explicit VariantExtensionType(const std::shared_ptr& storage_type); std::string extension_name() const override { return "arrow.parquet.variant"; } bool ExtensionEquals(const ExtensionType& other) const override; Result> Deserialize( std::shared_ptr storage_type, const std::string& serialized_data) const override; std::string Serialize() const override; std::shared_ptr MakeArray(std::shared_ptr data) const override; static Result> Make(std::shared_ptr storage_type); static bool IsSupportedStorageType(const std::shared_ptr& storage_type); std::shared_ptr metadata() const { return metadata_; } std::shared_ptr value() const { return value_; } private: // TODO GH-45948 added shredded_value std::shared_ptr metadata_; std::shared_ptr value_; }; /// \brief Return a VariantExtensionType instance. ARROW_EXPORT std::shared_ptr variant(std::shared_ptr storage_type); } // namespace arrow::extension