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Provides API for converting parquet schema to arrow schema and vice versa.

The main interfaces for converting parquet schema to arrow schema are parquet_to_arrow_schema, parquet_to_arrow_schema_by_columns and parquet_to_arrow_field.

The interfaces for converting arrow schema to parquet schema is coming.

Functions

Convert arrow schema to parquet schema

Convert parquet column schema to arrow field.

Convert Parquet schema to Arrow schema including optional metadata. Attempts to decode any existing Arrow schema metadata, falling back to converting the Parquet schema column-wise

Convert parquet schema to arrow schema including optional metadata, only preserving some leaf columns.

Convert parquet schema to arrow schema including optional metadata, only preserving some root columns. This is useful if we have columns a.b, a.c.e and a.d, and want a with all its child fields