Improved snowflake.snowpark.functions to support double and varchar.

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 - Added support for file writes. This feature is currently in private preview.
 
 #### Improvements
+- Improved  `snowflake.snowpark.functions` to support double and varchar.
 
 #### Bug Fixes
 

src/snowflake/snowpark/functions.py

@@ -5381,7 +5381,8 @@ def array_remove(array: ColumnOrName, element: ColumnOrLiteral) -> Column:
         - `ARRAY <https://docs.snowflake.com/en/sql-reference/data-types-semistructured#label-data-type-array>`_ for more details on semi-structured arrays.
     """
     a = _to_col_if_str(array, "array_remove")
-    return builtin("array_remove")(a, element)
+    e = lit(element).cast("VARIANT") if isinstance(element, str) else element
+    return builtin("array_remove")(a, e)
 
 
 def array_cat(array1: ColumnOrName, array2: ColumnOrName) -> Column:

tests/integ/scala/test_function_suite.py

@@ -2829,25 +2829,100 @@ def test_array_append(session):
     reason="array_remove is not yet supported in local testing mode.",
 )
 def test_array_remove(session):
-    Utils.check_answer(
+    actual = session.createDataFrame([([1, 2, 4, 4, 3],), ([],)], ["data"])
+    actual = actual.select(array_remove(actual.data, 4))
+    expected = session.createDataFrame(
         [
-            Row("[\n  2,\n  3\n]"),
-            Row("[\n  6,\n  7\n]"),
+            Row("[\n  1,\n  2,\n  3\n]"),
+            Row("[]"),
         ],
-        TestData.array1(session).select(
-            array_remove(array_remove(col("arr1"), lit(1)), lit(8))
-        ),
-        sort=False,
+        ["data"],
     )
+    Utils.check_answer(actual, expected)
 
-    Utils.check_answer(
+    actual = session.createDataFrame([(["a", "b", "c", "a", "a"],), ([],)], ["data"])
+    actual = actual.select(array_remove(actual.data, "a"))
+    expected = session.createDataFrame(
+        [
+            Row('[\n  "b",\n  "c"\n]'),
+            Row("[]"),
+        ],
+        ["data"],
+    )
+    Utils.check_answer(actual, expected)
+
+    actual = session.createDataFrame(
+        [(["apple", "banana", "apple", "orange"],), ([],)], ["data"]
+    )
+    actual = actual.select(array_remove(actual.data, "apple"))
+    expected = session.createDataFrame(
+        [
+            Row('[\n  "banana",\n  "orange"\n]'),
+            Row("[]"),
+        ],
+        ["data"],
+    )
+    Utils.check_answer(actual, expected)
+
+    actual = session.createDataFrame([([1, "2", 3.1, 1, 3],), ([],)], ["data"])
+    actual = actual.select(array_remove(actual.data, 1))
+    expected = session.createDataFrame(
+        [
+            Row('[\n  "2",\n  3.1,\n  3\n]'),
+            Row("[]"),
+        ],
+        ["data"],
+    )
+    Utils.check_answer(actual, expected)
+
+    actual = session.createDataFrame([(["@", ";", "3.1", 1, 5 / 3],), ([],)], ["data"])
+    actual = actual.select(array_remove(actual.data, 1))
+    expected = session.createDataFrame(
+        [
+            Row('[\n  "@",\n  ";",\n  "3.1",\n  1.6666666666666667\n]'),
+            Row("[]"),
+        ],
+        ["data"],
+    )
+    Utils.check_answer(actual, expected)
+
+    actual = session.createDataFrame([([-1, -2, -4, -4, -3],), ([],)], ["data"])
+    actual = actual.select(array_remove(actual.data, 1))
+    expected = session.createDataFrame(
+        [
+            Row("[\n  -1,\n  -2,\n  -4,\n  -4,\n  -3\n]"),
+            Row("[]"),
+        ],
+        ["data"],
+    )
+    Utils.check_answer(actual, expected)
+
+    actual = session.createDataFrame([([4.4, 5.5, 1.1],), ([],)], ["data"])
+    actual = actual.select(array_remove(actual.data, 5.5))
+    expected = session.createDataFrame(
+        [
+            Row("[\n  4.4,\n  1.1\n]"),
+            Row("[]"),
+        ],
+        ["data"],
+    )
+    Utils.check_answer(actual, expected)
+
+    actual = TestData.array1(session).select(
+        array_remove(array_remove(col("arr1"), lit(1)), lit(8))
+    )
+
+    expected = session.createDataFrame(
         [
             Row("[\n  2,\n  3\n]"),
             Row("[\n  6,\n  7\n]"),
         ],
-        TestData.array1(session).select(
-            array_remove(array_remove(col("arr1"), 1), lit(8))
-        ),
+        ["data"],
+    )
+
+    Utils.check_answer(
+        actual,
+        expected,
         sort=False,
     )