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Work on BEAM-6769 started by Juta Staes.
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> BigQuery IO does not support bytes in Python 3
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> Key: BEAM-6769
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-6769
> Project: Beam
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: sdk-py-core
> Reporter: Juta Staes
> Assignee: Juta Staes
> Priority: Major
> Time Spent: 3h 20m
> Remaining Estimate: 0h
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> In Python 2 you could write bytes data to BigQuery. This is tested in
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> [https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/sdks/python/apache_beam/io/gcp/big_query_query_to_table_it_test.py#L186]
> Python 3 does not support
> {noformat}
> json.dumps({'test': b'test'}){noformat}
> which is used to encode the data in
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> [https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/sdks/python/apache_beam/io/gcp/bigquery_tools.py#L959]
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> How should writing bytes to BigQuery be handled in Python 3?
> * Forbid writing bytes into BigQuery on Python 3
> * Guess the encoding (utf-8?)
> * Pass the encoding to BigQuery
> cc: [~tvalentyn]
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