[jira] [Created] (BEAM-13170) Update Beam documentation to include Schema type mapping between various SDK languages

["Chamikara Madhusanka Jayalath (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Chamikara Madhusanka Jayalath created BEAM-13170:
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             Summary: Update Beam documentation to include Schema type mapping between various SDK languages
                 Key: BEAM-13170
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-13170
             Project: Beam
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: cross-language
            Reporter: Chamikara Madhusanka Jayalath


Currently documentation regarding how language specific types map to Beam schema types and vice versa are scattered in different locations.

For example,

* Following describes how Python types map to Beam schema types.

[https://beam.apache.org/releases/pydoc/2.32.0/apache_beam.typehints.schemas.html]

 * Beam Programming Guides gives some details regarding types and few examples but this seems to be incomplete.

[https://beam.apache.org/documentation/programming-guide/#schemas]

 * Following has a table that describes how types from various languages relate to each other.

[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uu9pJktzT_O3DxGd1-Q2op4nRk4HekIZbzi-0oTAips/edit#bookmark=id.tlciv62z2d9u]

 * There's limited documentation on using Python NamedTupes to properly create Beam Rows.

Ideally, we should extend the Beam Programming Guide (or create a new guide) to describe currently supported Schema types and how types from various SDK languages map to such types. We should also have enough examples to illustrate the usage.

 



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