When opening a Parquet file, a JSON presentation of the file will open automatically:
After closing the JSON view, it is possible to reopen it by clicking on the link in the parquet view.
Requirements
The extension used to require parquet-tools.
Now the extension uses the parquets TypeScript library to do parse the files.
If you still want to use parquet-tools, you should set parquet-viewer.useParquetTools to true and paruqet-tools should be in your PATH, or pointed by the parquet-viewer.parquetToolsPath setting.
Settings
The following setting options are available:
name
default
description
parquet-viewer.parquetToolsPath
parquet-tools
The name of the parquet-tools executable or a path to the parquet-tools jar
parquet-viewer.useParquetTools
false
Use the legacy parquet-tools application for reading the files
parquet-viewer.logging.panel
false
Whether to write diagnostic logs to an output panel