polars.LazyFrame.serialize#

LazyFrame.serialize(file: IOBase | str | Path | None = None) → str | None[source]#

Serialize the logical plan of this LazyFrame to a file or string in JSON format.

Parameters:

file: File path to which the result should be written. If set to None (default), the output is returned as a string instead.

See also

LazyFrame.deserialize

Examples

Serialize the logical plan into a JSON string.

>>> lf = pl.LazyFrame({"a": [1, 2, 3]}).sum()
>>> json = lf.serialize()
>>> json
'{"MapFunction":{"input":{"DataFrameScan":{"df":{"columns":[{"name":"a","datatype":"Int64","bit_settings":"","values":[1,2,3]}]},"schema":{"inner":{"a":"Int64"}},"output_schema":null,"projection":null,"selection":null}},"function":{"Stats":"Sum"}}}'

The logical plan can later be deserialized back into a LazyFrame.

>>> import io
>>> pl.LazyFrame.deserialize(io.StringIO(json)).collect()
shape: (1, 1)
┌─────┐
│ a   │
│ --- │
│ i64 │
╞═════╡
│ 6   │
└─────┘