That should be fine to move those to static methods in arrow-vector -- Julien or others may have another suggestion. Feel free to submit a PR (and create a JIRA that corresponds to the patch).
On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 5:09 PM, Li Jin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Wes, > > Thank for the help. I got it to work with manually creating a json file > similar to https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/integration/ > data/simple.json for my test. > > I want to use Intergration.compareSchemas and Intergration.compare from > https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/java/tools/ > src/main/java/org/apache/arrow/tools/Integration.java, but there are > private. Is it possible to make these functions part of arrow java library? > > Li > > On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Wes McKinney <[email protected]> wrote: > >> hi Li, >> >> This is exactly what we are doing in the integration tests. See the >> "JSON_TO_ARROW" and "VALIDATE" commands in the Java integration tests: >> >> https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/java/tools/ >> src/main/java/org/apache/arrow/tools/Integration.java >> >> Here is a sample JSON data file: >> >> https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/integration/data/simple.json >> >> In my patch in https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/219 I started >> creating more comprehensive JSON data generation, so you will be able >> to more easily generate a JSON file that matches a particular record >> batch schema. >> >> - Wes >> >> On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Li Jin <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hello! >> > >> > I am trying to test a function that turns a list of some data to a arrow >> > record batch. In order to do that, I need to compare the output of the >> > function to a "correct" arrow record batch. However, I struggle with >> > creating the "correct" arrow record batch. >> > >> > My test data is a list of rows that each has a integer column "a" with a >> > null value: >> > [{a: 1}, {a: 2}, {a: 3}, {a: null}] >> > >> > Is there a format of data that I can use to turn into arrow record batch >> > easily (for instance, json?) ? >>
