[jira] [Created] (BEAM-7344) Consider removing the requirement that users need to base64-encode their BYTES before passing them to BQ IO connector.

[Valentyn Tymofieiev (JIRA)]

Valentyn Tymofieiev created BEAM-7344:
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             Summary: Consider removing the requirement that users need to 
base64-encode their BYTES before passing them to BQ IO connector.
                 Key: BEAM-7344
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-7344
             Project: Beam
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: io-java-gcp, io-python-gcp
            Reporter: Valentyn Tymofieiev


Currently, when BigQuery IO connector reads or stores BYTES datatype in 
BigQuery, there is an expectation that users base64-encode the bytes before 
passing them to the connector, see [1,2]. 
This may be an extra overhead for users to do base64 encoding when interacting 
with Beam, that is possible to avoid. Filing this issue to reconsider this 
behavior.

cc: [~chamikara].

[1] 
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/0c2178cf8e5d9e77c4f233f05a0b87b6011a1daa1a5ae47b41463af5@%3Cdev.beam.apache.org%3E
[2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-7326



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