reuvenlax commented on a change in pull request #10767: Document Beam Schemas URL: https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/10767#discussion_r386037750
########## File path: website/src/documentation/programming-guide.md ########## @@ -1970,7 +1976,1076 @@ records.apply("WriteToText", See the [Beam-provided I/O Transforms]({{site.baseurl }}/documentation/io/built-in/) page for a list of the currently available I/O transforms. -## 6. Data encoding and type safety {#data-encoding-and-type-safety} +## 6. Schemas {#schemas} +Often, the type of records being processed have an obvious structure. Common Beam sources produce +JSON, Avro, Protocol Buffer, or database row objects; all of these types have well defined structures, +structures that can often be determined by examining the type. Even within a pipeline, Simple Java POJOs +(or equivalent structures in other languages) are often used as intermediate types, and these also have a Review comment: I think better to wait until we add Python schema docs ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org With regards, Apache Git Services