Convert consistently

src/column.js

@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ export function readColumn(arrayBuffer, columnOffset, rowGroup, columnMetadata,
     )
 
     // parse page data by type
+    /** @type {DecodedArray} */
+    let values
     if (header.type === 'DATA_PAGE') {
       const daph = header.data_page_header
       if (!daph) throw new Error('parquet data page header is undefined')
@@ -59,11 +61,7 @@ export function readColumn(arrayBuffer, columnOffset, rowGroup, columnMetadata,
       const { definitionLevels, repetitionLevels, dataPage } = readDataPage(page, daph, schemaPath, columnMetadata)
       valuesSeen += daph.num_values
 
-      const dictionaryEncoding = daph.encoding === 'PLAIN_DICTIONARY' || daph.encoding === 'RLE_DICTIONARY'
-
       // construct output values: skip nulls and construct lists
-      /** @type {DecodedArray} */
-      let values
       if (repetitionLevels.length) {
         dereferenceDictionary(dictionary, dataPage)
         // Use repetition levels to construct lists
@@ -80,16 +78,10 @@ export function readColumn(arrayBuffer, columnOffset, rowGroup, columnMetadata,
         // Use definition levels to skip nulls
         values = []
         skipNulls(definitionLevels, maxDefinitionLevel, dataPage, dictionary, values)
+        values = convert(values, element)
       } else {
-        if (dictionaryEncoding && dictionary) {
-          dereferenceDictionary(dictionary, dataPage)
-          values = convert(dataPage, element)
-        } else if (Array.isArray(dataPage)) {
-          // convert primitive types to rich types
-          values = convert(dataPage, element)
-        } else {
-          values = dataPage // TODO: data page shouldn't be a fixed byte array?
-        }
+        dereferenceDictionary(dictionary, dataPage)
+        values = convert(dataPage, element)
       }
 
       // TODO: check that we are at the end of the page
@@ -118,19 +110,22 @@ export function readColumn(arrayBuffer, columnOffset, rowGroup, columnMetadata,
       const maxRepetitionLevel = getMaxRepetitionLevel(schemaPath)
       if (repetitionLevels.length) {
         dereferenceDictionary(dictionary, dataPage)
+        values = convert(dataPage, element)
         // Use repetition levels to construct lists
-        concat(rowData, assembleObjects(
-          definitionLevels, repetitionLevels, dataPage, true, maxDefinitionLevel, maxRepetitionLevel
-        ))
+        values = assembleObjects(
+          definitionLevels, repetitionLevels, values, true, maxDefinitionLevel, maxRepetitionLevel
+        )
       } else if (daph2.num_nulls) {
         // skip nulls
         if (!definitionLevels) throw new Error('parquet data page v2 nulls missing definition levels')
-        skipNulls(definitionLevels, maxDefinitionLevel, dataPage, dictionary, rowData)
+        values = [] // TODO: copy straight into rowData, combine convert into skipNulls
+        skipNulls(definitionLevels, maxDefinitionLevel, dataPage, dictionary, values)
+        values = convert(values, element)
       } else {
         dereferenceDictionary(dictionary, dataPage)
-        concat(rowData, dataPage)
+        values = convert(dataPage, element)
       }
-      // TODO: convert?
+      concat(rowData, values)
     } else {
       throw new Error(`parquet unsupported page type: ${header.type}`)
     }
@@ -200,7 +195,7 @@ export function decompressPage(compressedBytes, uncompressed_page_size, codec, c
 }
 
 /**
- * Expand data page list with nulls and convert to utf8.
+ * Expand data page list with nulls.
  *
  * @param {number[]} definitionLevels
  * @param {number} maxDefinitionLevel
@@ -212,7 +207,6 @@ function skipNulls(definitionLevels, maxDefinitionLevel, dataPage, dictionary, o
   if (output.length) throw new Error('parquet output array is not empty')
   // Use definition levels to skip nulls
   let index = 0
-  const decoder = new TextDecoder()
   for (let i = 0; i < definitionLevels.length; i++) {
     if (definitionLevels[i] === maxDefinitionLevel) {
       if (index > dataPage.length) {
@@ -223,13 +217,6 @@ function skipNulls(definitionLevels, maxDefinitionLevel, dataPage, dictionary, o
       // map to dictionary value
       if (dictionary) {
         v = dictionary[v]
-        if (v instanceof Uint8Array) {
-          try {
-            v = decoder.decode(v)
-          } catch (e) {
-            console.warn('parquet failed to decode byte array as string', e)
-          }
-        }
       }
       output[i] = v
     } else {

src/convert.js

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ export function convert(data, schemaElement) {
   const ctype = schemaElement.converted_type
   if (ctype === 'UTF8') {
     const decoder = new TextDecoder()
-    return data.map(v => typeof v === 'string' ? v : decoder.decode(v))
+    return data.map(v => v && decoder.decode(v))
   }
   if (ctype === 'DECIMAL') {
     const scaleFactor = schemaElement.scale ? Math.pow(10, schemaElement.scale) : 1

src/hyparquet.d.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import type { AsyncBuffer, Compressors, FileMetaData, SchemaTree } from './types.d.ts'
 
-export type { AsyncBuffer, FileMetaData, SchemaTree }
+export type { AsyncBuffer, Compressors, FileMetaData, SchemaTree }
 
 /**
  * Read parquet data rows from a file-like object.