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Add fallback support for viewing arrow files locally. #267

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bloodearnest opened this issue Aug 29, 2024 · 0 comments
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Add fallback support for viewing arrow files locally. #267

bloodearnest opened this issue Aug 29, 2024 · 0 comments
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bloodearnest commented Aug 29, 2024

We want to encourage users to use arrow files for ehrql outputs.

The main drawback of this is viewing these files in local development. We hope that users using codespaces/vscode can use an arrow dataset viewer plugin (opensafely/research-template#56)

However, it may be that users are not using vscode, and need a way to easily view arrow files generated by local ehrql runs.

Previously, when addressing this problem for csv.gz files, we added a unzip command to extract a copy to a regular CSV for local viewing: #110

We could possibly do the same here, and add an opensafely csv path/to/file.arrow or similar that would load and write a path/to/file.csv file for easy local viewing as a simple fall back for this.

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