samredai commented on a change in pull request #4021: URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/4021#discussion_r799082313
########## File path: python/src/iceberg/io/base.py ########## @@ -24,7 +24,40 @@ """ from abc import ABC, abstractmethod -from typing import Union +from typing import Protocol, Union, runtime_checkable + + +@runtime_checkable +class InputStream(Protocol): + def read(self, n: int) -> bytes: + ... Review comment: @emkornfield I think I follow. It sounds like when using FileIO instances throughout the library, you're saying we have to support those that produce file-like objects (which we pass into `PythonFile` then into pyarrow) as well as those that produce `pyarrow.NativeFile` instances which can just be passed directly to pyarrow. In that case, instead of defining Protocols, should we just use typehints for the `InputFile` and `OutputFile` classes to specify that either [typing.IO](https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#typing.IO) or `pyarrow.NativeFile` can be returned? ```py from abc import ABC, abstractmethod from typing import Union, IO from pyarrow import NativeFile class InputFile(ABC): ... def open(self) -> Union[IO, NativeFile] ... class OutputFile(ABC): ... def create(self) -> Union[IO, NativeFile]: ... ``` -- 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: issues-unsubscr...@iceberg.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@iceberg.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@iceberg.apache.org