feat: add DataFrame.to_arrow to create Arrow Table from DataFrame

bigframes/core/blocks.py

@@ -467,6 +467,36 @@ def _validate_result_schema(self, result_df: pd.DataFrame):
                 f"This error should only occur while testing. Ibis schema: {ibis_schema} does not match actual schema: {actual_schema}"
             )
 
+    def to_arrow(
+        self,
+        *,
+        ordered: bool = True,
+    ) -> Tuple[pa.Table, bigquery.QueryJob]:
+        """Run query and download results as a pyarrow Table."""
+        # pa.Table.from_pandas puts index columns last, so update the expression to match.
+        expr = self.expr.select_columns(
+            list(self.value_columns) + list(self.index_columns)
+        )
+
+        _, query_job = self.session._query_to_destination(
+            self.session._to_sql(expr, ordered=ordered),
+            list(self.index_columns),
+            api_name="cached",
+            do_clustering=False,
+        )
+        results_iterator = query_job.result()
+        pa_table = results_iterator.to_arrow()
+
+        pa_index_labels = []
+        for index_level, index_label in enumerate(self._index_labels):
+            if isinstance(index_label, str):
+                pa_index_labels.append(index_label)
+            else:
+                pa_index_labels.append(f"__index_level_{index_level}__")
+
+        pa_table = pa_table.rename_columns(list(self.column_labels) + pa_index_labels)
+        return pa_table, query_job
+
     def to_pandas(
         self,
         max_download_size: Optional[int] = None,

bigframes/dataframe.py

@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
 import numpy
 import pandas
 import pandas.io.formats.format
+import pyarrow
 import tabulate
 
 import bigframes
@@ -1183,6 +1184,34 @@ def cov(self, *, numeric_only: bool = False) -> DataFrame:
 
         return DataFrame(frame._block.calculate_pairwise_metric(agg_ops.CovOp()))
 
+    def to_arrow(
+        self,
+        *,
+        ordered: Optional[bool] = None,
+    ) -> pyarrow.Table:
+        """Write DataFrame to an Arrow table / record batch.
+
+        Args:
+            ordered (bool, default None):
+                Determines whether the resulting Arrow table will be deterministically ordered.
+                In some cases, unordered may result in a faster-executing query. If set to a value
+                other than None, will override Session default.
+
+        Returns:
+            pyarrow.Table: A pyarrow Table with all rows and columns of this DataFrame.
+        """
+        warnings.warn(
+            "to_arrow is in preview. Types and unnamed / duplicate name columns may change in future.",
+            category=bigframes.exceptions.PreviewWarning,
+        )
+
+        self._optimize_query_complexity()
+        pa_table, query_job = self._block.to_arrow(
+            ordered=ordered if ordered is not None else self._session._strictly_ordered,
+        )
+        self._set_internal_query_job(query_job)
+        return pa_table
+
     def to_pandas(
         self,
         max_download_size: Optional[int] = None,

samples/polars/create_polars_df_with_to_arrow_test.py

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+# Copyright 2024 Google LLC
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+
+def test_create_polars_df() -> None:
+    # [START bigquery_dataframes_to_polars]
+    import polars
+
+    import bigframes.enums
+    import bigframes.pandas as bpd
+
+    bf_df = bpd.read_gbq_table(
+        "bigquery-public-data.usa_names.usa_1910_current",
+        # Setting index_col to either a unique column or NULL will give the
+        # best performance.
+        index_col=bigframes.enums.DefaultIndexKind.NULL,
+    )
+    # TODO(developer): Do some analysis using BigQuery DataFrames.
+    # ...
+
+    # Run the query and download the results as an Arrow table to convert into
+    # a Polars DataFrame. Use ordered=False if your polars analysis is OK with
+    # non-deterministic ordering.
+    arrow_table = bf_df.to_arrow(ordered=False)
+    polars_df = polars.from_arrow(arrow_table)
+    # [END bigquery_dataframes_to_polars]
+
+    assert polars_df.shape == bf_df.shape
+    assert polars_df["number"].sum() == bf_df["number"].sum()