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How to serialize POCOs to a Table?

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Since Mar 11, 2026.

  • #284 by @cmettler — open

Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp

Research direction

The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by surveying the Apache.Arrow .NET APIs for constructing a Table and any existing serialization helpers; done means establishing and documenting a recommended way to serialize a list of POCOs, or defining the scope of a new helper.

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Description

Describe the enhancement requested

Arrow seems like a great system for working with data once you already have some Arrow-format data to work with, but trying to reach that point seems needlessly complicated. For a system dedicated to batch processing of data, you'd expect that one of the most fundamental operations would be to take a list of POCO data objects and serialize it to a Table. But if there's any serializer in the Apache.Arrow library, or even any helpers that would be useful for building one, I can't find them anywhere.

What's the recommended way to serialize a list of objects to a Table?

Moved from https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/40302.

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