friendlymatthew opened a new issue, #8605: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8605
**Is your feature request related to a problem or challenge? Please describe what you are trying to do.** Currently, the JSON read/write methods enforce a fixed mapping for specialized variant types. For instance, timestamps are always serialized as JSON strings. **Describe the solution you'd like** To make this more flexible, it should be possible to pass an optional format configuration that allows users to control how specialized types (like timestamps or UUIDs) are serialized/deserialized. **Additional context** This feature is motivated by [datafusion-variant](https://github.com/datafusion-contrib/datafusion-variant), a higher-level library that integrates with Datafusion through a series of udfs -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
