Great news! On Thu, May 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM Andrew Lamb <andrewlam...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, > > I am pretty stoked to report progress on a Rust Variant implementation > (see epic here[0]). > > 1. We have added example binary data in parquet-testing[1] (Thanks Micah > for the review and merge) > 2. Jiaying's prototype [2] is looking good and we are preparing to start > merging it in pieces > 3. I have created a PR to add a parquet-variant crate to arrow-rs[3] > (looking for a review 🎣) > > Once we have the parquet-variant crate merged, I expect a series of PRs > that incrementally adds support for different parts of the Variant > specification. Once this is done, we will move on to integrating it into > the parquet decoder. > > Exciting times, > Andrew > > [0]: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/6736 > [1]: https://github.com/apache/parquet-testing/pull/76 > [2]: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/7452 > [3]: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/7485 >
