hi Ryan, see
http://arrow.apache.org/docs/python/generated/pyarrow.Buffer.html#pyarrow.Buffer you can call to_pybytes() on the result of serialize() HTH Wes On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 4:24 PM Ryan White <ryanmwhite...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've found the deserialize in pa.ipc.read_schema(). From schema.serialize, > I get a pyarrow Buffer. Do I need to write this to a BufferOutputStream to > get raw bytes (e.g. sink.getvalue())? > In Flight, I see this is casted to std:string > https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/69d595ae4c61902b3f2778e536fca6675350c88c/cpp/src/arrow/flight/internal.cc#L219 > for the protbuf. > > Thanks > > Ryan M. White, Ph. D > www.linkedin.com/in/ryanmwhitephd > @ryanmwhitephd > ryanmwhite...@gmail.com > > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 4:11 PM Ryan White <ryanmwhite...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm using protocol buffers to retain metadata, and I would like to store > > the Arrow Schema in the protobuf as Arrow is doing in Flight. Looking at > > the Flight perf.proto, I can do the same and define a bytes field in my > > proto. From pyarrow, can I serialize/deserialize pyarrow.schema? I've only > > found pyarrow.schema.serialize() in python/arrow/types.pxi. > > > > Thanks, > > > >
