Source code for bigframes.extensions.pandas.dataframe_accessor

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from typing import cast

import pandas
import pandas.api.extensions

import bigframes.core.global_session as bf_session
import bigframes.pandas as bpd


[docs] @pandas.api.extensions.register_dataframe_accessor("bigquery") class BigQueryDataFrameAccessor: """ Pandas DataFrame accessor for BigQuery DataFrames functionality. This accessor is registered under the ``bigquery`` namespace on pandas DataFrame objects. """ def __init__(self, pandas_obj: pandas.DataFrame): self._obj = pandas_obj
[docs] def sql_scalar(self, sql_template: str, *, output_dtype=None, session=None): """ Compute a new pandas Series by applying a SQL scalar function to the DataFrame. The DataFrame is converted to BigFrames by calling ``read_pandas``, then the SQL template is applied using ``bigframes.bigquery.sql_scalar``, and the result is converted back to a pandas Series using ``to_pandas``. Args: sql_template (str): A SQL format string with Python-style {0}, {1}, etc. placeholders for each of the columns in the DataFrame (in the order they appear in ``df.columns``). output_dtype (a BigQuery DataFrames compatible dtype, optional): If provided, BigQuery DataFrames uses this to determine the output of the returned Series. This avoids a dry run query. session (bigframes.session.Session, optional): The BigFrames session to use. If not provided, the default global session is used. Returns: pandas.Series: The result of the SQL scalar function as a pandas Series. """ # Import bigframes.bigquery here to avoid circular imports import bigframes.bigquery if session is None: session = bf_session.get_global_session() bf_df = cast(bpd.DataFrame, session.read_pandas(self._obj)) result = bigframes.bigquery.sql_scalar( sql_template, bf_df, output_dtype=output_dtype ) return result.to_pandas(ordered=True)