Feels like I’m missing something obvious, but is there an easy way to read/write arrow schema objects as json in pyarrow? It looks like java api has toJSON methods but can’t see if/how they’re exposed in python api.
wesmckinn (via slack) said: we haven't exposed JSON functionality in Python yet afaik. In the github, it looked like there might be some route via the pyarrow jvm, e.g. https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/4481b070c9eca4140aaa3a2470ede920411598a0/python/pyarrow/tests/test_jvm.py#L139 but import pyarrow.jvm as pa_jvm doesn't work for me either, so now stuck :( I'm on >>> pa.__version__ '0.9.0.post1' Hoping to use pyarrow schema as a way to explicitly declare layout of some pandas dataframes for validation and maybe type coercion for edge cases like a numeric column which is entirely null and gets inferred by pandas as a different type. Thanks, Patrick -- [image: hopper.com] <http://www.hopper.com> Patrick Surry Chief Data Scientist (857) 919 1700 | @patricksurry
