Joris Van den Bossche created ARROW-8780: --------------------------------------------
Summary: [Python] A fsspec-compatible wrapper for pyarrow.fs filesystems Key: ARROW-8780 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-8780 Project: Apache Arrow Issue Type: Improvement Components: Python Reporter: Joris Van den Bossche The new {{pyarrow.fs}} FileSystem objects have a limited Python API (currently mimicking the C++ API). In Python, [fsspec|https://filesystem-spec.readthedocs.io/en/latest] defines a common API for a variety filesystem implementations. We could try to implement a, fsspec-compatible class wrapping the {{pyarrow.fs}} native filesystems. Such as class would provide the methods expected according to fsspec, and implement those using the actual {{pyarrow.fs.FileSystem}} under the hood. This might be mainly useful for two use cases: - {{pyarrow.fs}} filesystems can be used in settings that expect an fsspec-compatible filesytem object - it provides a way to have a "richer" API around our {{pyarrow.fs}} filesystems (which has been requested before, cfr ARROW-7584), without expanding the core filesystem objects -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)