Hi Renato, I'm not clear if you are asking if the Arrow/Feather file format support this or if Arrow's parquet binding support it.
Regardless, both formats as of 2.0.0 now support arbitrarily nested data (there were some bugs discovered after the 2.0.0 release, and I just started a discussion on dev@ to see if we are going to do a patch release. Thanks, Micah On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 1:21 AM Renato Marroquín Mogrovejo < renatoj.marroq...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Arrow experts, > > I am trying to find out if Arrow supports reading/writing arbitrary > nested objects similarly to what Parquet supports with its FSM. > I came across this PR https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/4066 which > aimed to implement the Parquet specific approach (the FSM) but it was > declined because as far as I understand it was too Parquet specific. > Then, there is https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-1644 which > tracks the tasks related to writing nested objects, but I couldn't > make sense of it all. > > Basically my question is: Does arrow provide the functionality of > reading/writing arbitrarily nested objects (similar to Parquet's FSM > implementation)? Could you please point me to some documentation or > code for this? > > Thanks in advance! > > > Best, > > Renato M. >
