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parquet-cli reports nested columns as null #3095
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Using Parquet CLI 1.15.0 via Mac Homebrew, I noticed some surprising behaviour with the parquet-cli and nested columns.
parquet schema catalog.parquet returns a schema showing the nested types (I've trimmed the field list slightly):
{
"type" : "record",
"name" : "schema",
"fields" : [ {
"name" : "item_id",
"type" : "string"
}, {
"name" : "title",
"type" : [ "null", "string" ],
"default" : null
}, {
"name" : "language",
"type" : [ "null", "string" ],
"default" : null
}, {
"name" : "subjects",
"type" : [ "null", {
"type" : "array",
"items" : {
"type" : "record",
"name" : "list",
"fields" : [ {
"name" : "element",
"type" : "string"
} ]
}
} ],
"default" : null
}, {
"name" : "authors",
"type" : [ "null", {
"type" : "array",
"items" : {
"type" : "record",
"name" : "list",
"namespace" : "list2",
"fields" : [ {
"name" : "element",
"type" : "string"
} ]
}
} ],
"default" : null
} ]
}
parquet dictionary -c subjects.list.element catalog.parquet will return the expected values for those fields as well:
Row group 0 dictionary for "subjects.list.element":
0: "Bestsellers"
1: "Biography"
2: "Fantasy Fiction"
3: "Music Theory"
4: "Disability"
5: "Family"
6: "Young Adult"
However, when using cat or head to display the file contents those fields are displayed as null:
{"bmc_id": "id1", "title": null, "language": "en", "subjects": null, "authors": null}
{"bmc_id": "id2", "title": null, "language": "en", "subjects": null, "authors": null,}
{"bmc_id": "id3", "title": null, "language": "en", "subjects": null, "authors": null}
Other tools like PyArrow or Pandas do display those values as arrays. I created this as a bug because it looks like it's working and if those fields are nullable, there's no way to tell whether the null value is correct.
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