reuvenlax commented on a change in pull request #10767: Document Beam Schemas
URL: https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/10767#discussion_r386037750
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File path: website/src/documentation/programming-guide.md
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@@ -1970,7 +1976,1076 @@ records.apply("WriteToText",
See the [Beam-provided I/O Transforms]({{site.baseurl
}}/documentation/io/built-in/)
page for a list of the currently available I/O transforms.
-## 6. Data encoding and type safety {#data-encoding-and-type-safety}
+## 6. Schemas {#schemas}
+Often, the type of records being processed have an obvious structure. Common
Beam sources produce
+JSON, Avro, Protocol Buffer, or database row objects; all of these types have
well defined structures,
+structures that can often be determined by examining the type. Even within a
pipeline, Simple Java POJOs
+(or equivalent structures in other languages) are often used as intermediate
types, and these also have a
Review comment:
I think better to wait until we add Python schema docs
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