feat(rust): POC metadata reading and writing #17112
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This PR illustrates a basic workflow for keeping track of and utilizing metadata. Currently, this is still all behind
POLARS_METADATA_USE=experimental
, but now we can start implementing a lot of places where metadata can be inferred or used.In this PR, I implemented all the infrastructure necessary to write the metadata from
chunked_array::ops
and to read the metadata frompolars-expr
.The writing is done using interior mutability. I attempted several approaches and this is the one that I settled on as being the easiest to work with and not providing to much overhead.
The reading is done through a trait object over the
MetadataTrait
, this makes all data available asScalar
s.The follow snippet illustrates that it works.
This outputs: