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BUG: Fix empty Data frames to JSON round-trippable back to data frames #21318

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BUG: Fix empty Data frames to JSON round-trippable back to data frame…
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Prevent empty data from being coerced to float64
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Loosen test type checks, remove length check from JSON parser
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion doc/source/whatsnew/v0.23.1.txt
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Expand Up @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ I/O

- Bug in IO methods specifying ``compression='zip'`` which produced uncompressed zip archives (:issue:`17778`, :issue:`21144`)
- Bug in :meth:`DataFrame.to_stata` which prevented exporting DataFrames to buffers and most file-like objects (:issue:`21041`)
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- Bug in IO JSON method :func:`read_json` reading empty JSON schema back to :class:DataFrame caused an error (:issue:`21287`)

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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion pandas/io/json/table_schema.py
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Expand Up @@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ def parse_table_schema(json, precise_float):
"""
table = loads(json, precise_float=precise_float)
col_order = [field['name'] for field in table['schema']['fields']]
df = DataFrame(table['data'])[col_order]
df = DataFrame(table['data'], columns=col_order)[col_order]

dtypes = {field['name']: convert_json_field_to_pandas_type(field)
for field in table['schema']['fields']}
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9 changes: 9 additions & 0 deletions pandas/tests/io/json/test_json_table_schema.py
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from pandas.io.json.table_schema import (
as_json_table_type,
build_table_schema,
parse_table_schema,
convert_pandas_type_to_json_field,
convert_json_field_to_pandas_type,
set_default_names)
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out = df.to_json(orient="table")
result = pd.read_json(out, orient="table")
tm.assert_frame_equal(df, result)

def test_empty_frame_roundtrip(self):
# GH 21287
df = pd.DataFrame([], columns=['a', 'b', 'c'])
expected = df.copy()
out = df.to_json(None, orient='table')
result = pd.read_json(out, orient='table')
tm.assert_frame_equal(expected, result)
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This raises an assertion error:

E       AssertionError: DataFrame.index are different
E
E       DataFrame.index classes are not equivalent
E       [left]:  Index([], dtype='object')
E       [right]: Float64Index([], dtype='float64')

That's something I need to dig deeper. If there is something obvious, that I'm missing, any pointers would be appreciated in such case.

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Thanks for doing this PR! Beat me to it :)
A bit weak but what do we think of just
pd.testing.assert_frame_equal(expected, actual, check_dtype=False) ?

Otherwise I would guess we have to go down the road of including the dtypes in the JSON representation?

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Good point! And actually it only works if I assert it like this:
pd.testing.assert_frame_equal(expected, result, check_dtype=False, check_index_type=False)
So both check_dtypeand check_index_type have to be set to False in order to get the assertion right.

Thoughts on this?

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Ignoring the dtype difference is not the solution. The point of this format is to persist that metadata.

What I would do is check that the proper type information for the index is being written out (you can use a io.StringIO instance instead of writing to None). If that appears correct then there would be an issue with the reader that is ignoring or casting the type of the index after the fact

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Yeah, you're right, ignoring the dtype and the index_type will just hide the problem.

Did some initial testings and it seems that on the reading side empty data with data.dtype == 'object' gets coerced to Float64 without any clear reason.

I'll push a commit with fix proposal for comments.