chore: Add proper tests for row encoding

crates/polars-python/Cargo.toml

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ polars-mem-engine = { workspace = true }
 polars-ops = { workspace = true, features = ["bitwise"] }
 polars-parquet = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 polars-plan = { workspace = true }
+polars-row = { workspace = true }
 polars-time = { workspace = true }
 polars-utils = { workspace = true }
 

crates/polars-python/src/dataframe/general.rs

@@ -710,4 +710,46 @@ impl PyDataFrame {
         let cap = md_cols.capacity();
         (ptr as usize, len, cap)
     }
+
+    /// Internal utility function to allow direct access to the row encoding from python.
+    #[pyo3(signature = (fields))]
+    fn _row_encode<'py>(
+        &'py self,
+        py: Python<'py>,
+        fields: Vec<(bool, bool, bool)>,
+    ) -> PyResult<PySeries> {
+        py.allow_threads(|| {
+            let mut df = self.df.clone();
+            df.rechunk_mut();
+
+            assert_eq!(df.width(), fields.len());
+
+            let chunks = df
+                .get_columns()
+                .iter()
+                .map(|c| c.as_materialized_series().to_physical_repr().chunks()[0].to_boxed())
+                .collect::<Vec<_>>();
+            let fields = fields
+                .into_iter()
+                .map(
+                    |(descending, nulls_last, no_order)| polars_row::EncodingField {
+                        descending,
+                        nulls_last,
+                        no_order,
+                    },
+                )
+                .collect::<Vec<_>>();
+
+            let rows = polars_row::convert_columns(&chunks, &fields);
+
+            Ok(unsafe {
+                Series::from_chunks_and_dtype_unchecked(
+                    PlSmallStr::from_static("row_enc"),
+                    vec![rows.into_array().boxed()],
+                    &DataType::BinaryOffset,
+                )
+            }
+            .into())
+        })
+    }
 }

crates/polars-python/src/datatypes.rs

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ use crate::{PyExpr, Wrap};
 
 // Don't change the order of these!
 #[repr(u8)]
+#[derive(Clone)]
 pub(crate) enum PyDataType {
     Int8,
     Int16,

crates/polars-python/src/series/general.rs

@@ -534,6 +534,68 @@ impl PySeries {
             .map_err(PyPolarsErr::from)?;
         Ok(out.into())
     }
+
+    /// Internal utility function to allow direct access to the row encoding from python.
+    #[pyo3(signature = (dtypes, fields))]
+    fn _row_decode<'py>(
+        &'py self,
+        py: Python<'py>,
+        dtypes: Vec<(String, Wrap<DataType>)>,
+        fields: Vec<(bool, bool, bool)>,
+    ) -> PyResult<PyDataFrame> {
+        py.allow_threads(|| {
+            assert_eq!(dtypes.len(), fields.len());
+
+            let fields = fields
+                .into_iter()
+                .map(
+                    |(descending, nulls_last, no_order)| polars_row::EncodingField {
+                        descending,
+                        nulls_last,
+                        no_order,
+                    },
+                )
+                .collect::<Vec<_>>();
+
+            // The polars-row crate expects the physical arrow types.
+            let arrow_dtypes = dtypes
+                .iter()
+                .map(|(_, dtype)| dtype.0.to_physical().to_arrow(CompatLevel::newest()))
+                .collect::<Vec<_>>();
+
+            // Get the BinaryOffset array.
+            let arr = self.series.rechunk();
+            let arr = arr.binary_offset().map_err(PyPolarsErr::from)?;
+            assert_eq!(arr.chunks().len(), 1);
+            let mut values = arr
+                .downcast_iter()
+                .next()
+                .unwrap()
+                .values_iter()
+                .collect::<Vec<&[u8]>>();
+
+            let columns = PyResult::Ok(unsafe {
+                polars_row::decode::decode_rows(&mut values, &fields, &arrow_dtypes)
+            })?;
+
+            // Construct a DataFrame from the result.
+            let columns = columns
+                .into_iter()
+                .zip(dtypes)
+                .map(|(arr, (name, dtype))| {
+                    unsafe {
+                        Series::from_chunks_and_dtype_unchecked(
+                            PlSmallStr::from(name),
+                            vec![arr],
+                            &dtype.0,
+                        )
+                    }
+                    .into_column()
+                })
+                .collect::<Vec<_>>();
+            Ok(DataFrame::new(columns).map_err(PyPolarsErr::from)?.into())
+        })
+    }
 }
 
 macro_rules! impl_set_with_mask {

py-polars/polars/dataframe/frame.py

@@ -11304,6 +11304,23 @@ def _to_metadata(
 
         return md
 
+    def _row_encode(
+        self,
+        fields: list[tuple[bool, bool, bool]],
+    ) -> Series:
+        """
+        Row encode the given DataFrame.
+
+        This is an internal function not meant for outside consumption and can
+        be changed or removed at any point in time.
+
+        fields have order:
+        - descending
+        - nulls_last
+        - no_order
+        """
+        return pl.Series._from_pyseries(self._df._row_encode(fields))
+
 
 def _prepare_other_arg(other: Any, length: int | None = None) -> Series:
     # if not a series create singleton series such that it will broadcast

py-polars/polars/series/series.py

@@ -7517,6 +7517,24 @@ def plot(self) -> SeriesPlot:
             raise ModuleUpgradeRequiredError(msg)
         return SeriesPlot(self)
 
+    def _row_decode(
+        self,
+        dtypes: Iterable[tuple[str, DataType]],  # type: ignore[valid-type]
+        fields: Iterable[tuple[bool, bool, bool]],
+    ) -> DataFrame:
+        """
+        Row decode the given Series.
+
+        This is an internal function not meant for outside consumption and can
+        be changed or removed at any point in time.
+
+        fields have order:
+        - descending
+        - nulls_last
+        - no_order
+        """
+        return pl.DataFrame._from_pydf(self._s._row_decode(list(dtypes), list(fields)))
+
 
 def _resolve_temporal_dtype(
     dtype: PolarsDataType | None,

py-polars/tests/unit/test_row_encoding.py

@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import pytest
+from hypothesis import given
+
+import polars as pl
+from polars.testing import assert_frame_equal
+from polars.testing.parametric import dataframes
+
+# @TODO: Deal with no_order
+FIELD_COMBS = [
+    (descending, nulls_last, False)
+    for descending in [False, True]
+    for nulls_last in [False, True]
+]
+
+
+def roundtrip_re(
+    df: pl.DataFrame, fields: list[tuple[bool, bool, bool]] | None = None
+) -> None:
+    if fields is None:
+        fields = [(False, False, False)] * df.width
+
+    row_encoded = df._row_encode(fields)
+    dtypes = [(c, df.get_column(c).dtype) for c in df.columns]
+    result = row_encoded._row_decode(dtypes, fields)
+
+    assert_frame_equal(df, result)
+
+
+@given(
+    df=dataframes(
+        excluded_dtypes=[
+            pl.List,
+            pl.Array,
+            pl.Struct,
+            pl.Categorical,
+            pl.Enum,
+        ]
+    )
+)
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("field", FIELD_COMBS)
+def test_row_encoding_parametric(
+    df: pl.DataFrame, field: tuple[bool, bool, bool]
+) -> None:
+    roundtrip_re(df, [field] * df.width)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("field", FIELD_COMBS)
+def test_nulls(field: tuple[bool, bool, bool]) -> None:
+    roundtrip_re(pl.Series("a", [], pl.Null).to_frame(), [field])
+    roundtrip_re(pl.Series("a", [None], pl.Null).to_frame(), [field])
+    roundtrip_re(pl.Series("a", [None] * 2, pl.Null).to_frame(), [field])
+    roundtrip_re(pl.Series("a", [None] * 13, pl.Null).to_frame(), [field])
+    roundtrip_re(pl.Series("a", [None] * 42, pl.Null).to_frame(), [field])
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("field", FIELD_COMBS)
+def test_bool(field: tuple[bool, bool, bool]) -> None:
+    roundtrip_re(pl.Series("a", [], pl.Boolean).to_frame(), [field])
+    roundtrip_re(pl.Series("a", [False], pl.Boolean).to_frame(), [field])
+    roundtrip_re(pl.Series("a", [True], pl.Boolean).to_frame(), [field])
+    roundtrip_re(pl.Series("a", [False, True], pl.Boolean).to_frame(), [field])
+    roundtrip_re(pl.Series("a", [True, False], pl.Boolean).to_frame(), [field])
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "dtype",
+    [
+        pl.Int8,
+        pl.Int16,
+        pl.Int32,
+        pl.Int64,
+        pl.UInt8,
+        pl.UInt16,
+        pl.UInt32,
+        pl.UInt64,
+    ],
+)
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("field", FIELD_COMBS)
+def test_int(dtype: pl.DataType, field: tuple[bool, bool, bool]) -> None:
+    min = pl.select(x=dtype.min()).item()  # type: ignore[attr-defined]
+    max = pl.select(x=dtype.max()).item()  # type: ignore[attr-defined]
+
+    roundtrip_re(pl.Series("a", [], dtype).to_frame(), [field])
+    roundtrip_re(pl.Series("a", [0], dtype).to_frame(), [field])
+    roundtrip_re(pl.Series("a", [min], dtype).to_frame(), [field])
+    roundtrip_re(pl.Series("a", [max], dtype).to_frame(), [field])
+
+    roundtrip_re(pl.Series("a", [1, 2, 3], dtype).to_frame(), [field])
+    roundtrip_re(pl.Series("a", [0, 1, 2, 3], dtype).to_frame(), [field])
+    roundtrip_re(pl.Series("a", [min, 0, max], dtype).to_frame(), [field])
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "dtype",
+    [
+        pl.Float32,
+        pl.Float64,
+    ],
+)
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("field", FIELD_COMBS)
+def test_float(dtype: pl.DataType, field: tuple[bool, bool, bool]) -> None:
+    inf = float("inf")
+    inf_b = float("-inf")
+
+    roundtrip_re(pl.Series("a", [], dtype).to_frame(), [field])
+    roundtrip_re(pl.Series("a", [0.0], dtype).to_frame(), [field])
+    roundtrip_re(pl.Series("a", [inf], dtype).to_frame(), [field])
+    roundtrip_re(pl.Series("a", [-inf_b], dtype).to_frame(), [field])
+
+    roundtrip_re(pl.Series("a", [1.0, 2.0, 3.0], dtype).to_frame(), [field])
+    roundtrip_re(pl.Series("a", [0.0, 1.0, 2.0, 3.0], dtype).to_frame(), [field])
+    roundtrip_re(pl.Series("a", [inf, 0, -inf_b], dtype).to_frame(), [field])
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("field", FIELD_COMBS)
+def test_str(field: tuple[bool, bool, bool]) -> None:
+    roundtrip_re(pl.Series("a", [], pl.String).to_frame(), [field])
+    roundtrip_re(pl.Series("a", [""], pl.String).to_frame(), [field])
+
+    roundtrip_re(pl.Series("a", ["a", "b", "c"], pl.String).to_frame(), [field])
+    roundtrip_re(pl.Series("a", ["", "a", "b", "c"], pl.String).to_frame(), [field])
+
+    roundtrip_re(
+        pl.Series("a", ["different", "length", "strings"], pl.String).to_frame(),
+        [field],
+    )
+    roundtrip_re(
+        pl.Series(
+            "a", ["different", "", "length", "", "strings"], pl.String
+        ).to_frame(),
+        [field],
+    )
+
+
+# def test_struct() -> None:
+#     # @TODO: How do we deal with zero-field structs?
+#     # roundtrip_re(pl.Series('a', [], pl.Struct({})).to_frame())
+#     # roundtrip_re(pl.Series('a', [{}], pl.Struct({})).to_frame())
+#     roundtrip_re(pl.Series("a", [{"x": 1}], pl.Struct({"x": pl.Int32})).to_frame())
+#     roundtrip_re(
+#         pl.Series(
+#             "a", [{"x": 1}, {"y": 2}], pl.Struct({"x": pl.Int32, "y": pl.Int32})
+#         ).to_frame()
+#     )