/// Simple example use arrow2::array::Array; use arrow2_convert::{ deserialize::TryIntoCollection, serialize::TryIntoArrow, ArrowDeserialize, ArrowField, ArrowSerialize, }; #[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, ArrowField, ArrowSerialize, ArrowDeserialize)] pub struct Foo { name: String, } #[test] fn test_simple_roundtrip() { // an item let original_array = [ Foo { name: "hello".to_string(), }, Foo { name: "one more".to_string(), }, Foo { name: "good bye".to_string(), }, ]; // serialize to an arrow array. try_into_arrow() is enabled by the TryIntoArrow trait let arrow_array: Box = original_array.try_into_arrow().unwrap(); // which can be cast to an Arrow StructArray and be used for all kinds of IPC, FFI, etc. // supported by `arrow2` let struct_array = arrow_array .as_any() .downcast_ref::() .unwrap(); assert_eq!(struct_array.len(), 3); // deserialize back to our original vector via TryIntoCollection trait. let round_trip_array: Vec = arrow_array.try_into_collection().unwrap(); assert_eq!(round_trip_array, original_array); }