queryverse / queryverse/DataValues.jl

Cannot `convert` an object of type DataValues.DataValue{Any} to an object of type DateTime

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Description

I'm not sure if this is a core DataValues issue or one with the implementation in ExcelFiles or DataFrames (where I posted the same issue):
https://github.com/queryverse/ExcelFiles.jl/issues/13
https://github.com/JuliaData/DataFrames.jl/issues/1478

(I'll close the inappropriate issues once I figure out where the issue is)

I have dataframe df where column 1 is an array of DataValues.DataValue{Any}.
How can I convert it to DateTime, and allow for missing?

This doesn’t work:

datetimes = convert(Vector{Union{DateTime,Missing}}, df[1])
MethodError: Cannot `convert` an object of type DataValues.DataValue{Any} to an object of type DateTime

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Start by reproducing the shown convert(Vector{Union{DateTime,Missing}}, df[1]) call and inspect how DataValues.DataValue{Any} conversion is handled. Compare the related ExcelFiles and DataFrames issues linked in the report; done means a documented or tested conversion path that preserves missing values.

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julia
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data
Issue type
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