add .parquet files data preview

[RandomFractals]

see finos/perspective#342 for more info

[gbrueckl]

Any time frame when this will be available?
Would like to refer to your extension when it comes to viewing parquet files

[RandomFractals]

I have not looked into it in a while. Last time I checked nodejs parquet lib had some issues and required native modules which I can't support in vscode ...

[gbrueckl]

Looks like there is a new package to work with parquet in TypeScript
https://github.com/kbajalc/parquets

Would this work?

[RandomFractals]

that might work. I'll take it for a spin this weekend.

Thanks for linking me to it.

[gbrueckl]

any update to this?

[RandomFractals]

hoping to look more into this in fall.

[RandomFractals]

@gbrueckl good news. I tried parquets lib you suggested and looks like we can load one of the sample parquet data files now.

I'll see if I can find more parquet data files online and if it works with more examples, I'll package and ship this soon.