Dragoș Moldovan-Grünfeld created ARROW-15833:
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Summary: [C++] Support casting from duration to string/utf8
Key: ARROW-15833
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-15833
Project: Apache Arrow
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: C++, R
Affects Versions: 7.0.0
Reporter: Dragoș Moldovan-Grünfeld
Cast from {{duration[s]}} to {{utf8}} is not supported. This surfaced in R as
an error when trying to write to CSV.
{code:r}
arrow::write_csv_arrow(data.frame(time = as.difftime(1, units="secs")),
"test.csv")
#> Error: NotImplemented: Unsupported cast from duration[s] to utf8 using
function cast_string
{code}
{code:r}
library(arrow, warn.conflicts = FALSE)
#> See arrow_info() for available features
c <- Array$create(as.difftime(32, units = "secs"))
c
#> Array
#> <duration[s]>
#> [
#> 32
#> ]
c$cast(string())
#> Error: NotImplemented: Unsupported cast from duration[s] to utf8 using
function cast_string
#> /Users/dragos/Documents/arrow/cpp/src/arrow/compute/function.cc:231
DispatchBest(&inputs)
{code}
I guess the desired output would be to cast to "current" units even if we lose
the metadata
{code:r}
c$cast(int64())$cast(string())
#> Array
#> <string>
#> [
#> "32"
#> ]
c$cast(duration(unit = "ms"))$cast(int64())$cast(string())
#> Array
#> <string>
#> [
#> "32000"
#> ]
{code}
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