[jira] [Updated] (BEAM-7344) Consider removing the requirement that users need to base64-encode their BYTES before passing them to BQ IO connector.

["Valentyn Tymofieiev (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-7344?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Valentyn Tymofieiev updated BEAM-7344:
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    Priority: Minor  (was: Major)

> Consider removing the requirement that users need to base64-encode their BYTES before passing them to BQ IO connector.
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>                 Key: BEAM-7344
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-7344
>             Project: Beam
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: io-java-gcp, io-python-gcp
>            Reporter: Valentyn Tymofieiev
>            Priority: Minor
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> Currently, when BigQuery IO connector reads or stores BYTES datatype in BigQuery, there is an expectation that users base64-encode the bytes before passing them to the connector, see [1,2]. 
> This may be an extra overhead for users to do base64 encoding when interacting with Beam, that is possible to avoid. Filing this issue to reconsider this behavior.
> cc: [~chamikara].
> [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/0c2178cf8e5d9e77c4f233f05a0b87b6011a1daa1a5ae47b41463af5@%3Cdev.beam.apache.org%3E
> [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-7326



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