[REVIEW] Reduce/Remove reliance on **kwargs and *args in IO readers & writers

python/cudf/cudf/_lib/orc.pyx

@@ -120,15 +120,15 @@ cpdef read_orc(object filepaths_or_buffers,
         c_result = move(libcudf_read_orc(c_orc_reader_options))
 
     names = [name.decode() for name in c_result.metadata.column_names]
-    actual_index_names, names, is_range_index, reset_index_name, range_idx = \
-        _get_index_from_metadata(c_result.metadata.user_data,
-                                 names,
-                                 skip_rows,
-                                 num_rows)
+    actual_index_names, col_names, is_range_index, reset_index_name, \
+        range_idx = _get_index_from_metadata(c_result.metadata.user_data,
+                                             names,
+                                             skip_rows,
+                                             num_rows)
 
     data, index = data_from_unique_ptr(
         move(c_result.tbl),
-        names,
+        col_names if columns is None else names,
         actual_index_names
     )
 
@@ -238,9 +238,10 @@ cpdef write_orc(table,
                 object stripe_size_bytes=None,
                 object stripe_size_rows=None,
                 object row_index_stride=None,
-                object cols_as_map_type=None):
+                object cols_as_map_type=None,
+                object index=None):
     """
-    Cython function to call into libcudf API, see `write_orc`.
+    Cython function to call into libcudf API, see `cudf::io::write_orc`.
 
     See Also
     --------
@@ -252,10 +253,12 @@ cpdef write_orc(table,
     cdef unique_ptr[table_input_metadata] tbl_meta
     cdef map[string, string] user_data
     user_data[str.encode("pandas")] = str.encode(generate_pandas_metadata(
-        table, None)
+        table, index)
     )
 
-    if not isinstance(table._index, cudf.RangeIndex):
+    if index is True or (
+        index is None and not isinstance(table._index, cudf.RangeIndex)
+    ):
         tv = table_view_from_table(table)
         tbl_meta = make_unique[table_input_metadata](tv)
         for level, idx_name in enumerate(table._index.names):

python/cudf/cudf/_lib/parquet.pyx

@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ cpdef write_parquet(
         object statistics="ROWGROUP",
         object metadata_file_path=None,
         object int96_timestamps=False,
-        object row_group_size_bytes=None,
+        object row_group_size_bytes=134217728,
         object row_group_size_rows=None,
         object max_page_size_bytes=None,
         object max_page_size_rows=None,

python/cudf/cudf/core/dataframe.py

@@ -6019,11 +6019,51 @@ def select_dtypes(self, include=None, exclude=None):
         return df
 
     @ioutils.doc_to_parquet()
-    def to_parquet(self, path, *args, **kwargs):
+    def to_parquet(
+        self,
+        path,
+        engine="cudf",
+        compression="snappy",
+        index=None,
+        partition_cols=None,
+        partition_file_name=None,
+        partition_offsets=None,
+        statistics="ROWGROUP",
+        metadata_file_path=None,
+        int96_timestamps=False,
+        row_group_size_bytes=ioutils._ROW_GROUP_SIZE_BYTES_DEFAULT,
+        row_group_size_rows=None,
+        max_page_size_bytes=None,
+        max_page_size_rows=None,
+        storage_options=None,
+        return_metadata=False,
+        *args,
+        **kwargs,
+    ):
         """{docstring}"""
         from cudf.io import parquet
 
-        return parquet.to_parquet(self, path, *args, **kwargs)
+        return parquet.to_parquet(
+            self,
+            path=path,
+            engine=engine,
+            compression=compression,
+            index=index,
+            partition_cols=partition_cols,
+            partition_file_name=partition_file_name,
+            partition_offsets=partition_offsets,
+            statistics=statistics,
+            metadata_file_path=metadata_file_path,
+            int96_timestamps=int96_timestamps,
+            row_group_size_bytes=row_group_size_bytes,
+            row_group_size_rows=row_group_size_rows,
+            max_page_size_bytes=max_page_size_bytes,
+            max_page_size_rows=max_page_size_rows,
+            storage_options=storage_options,
+            return_metadata=return_metadata,
+            *args,
+            **kwargs,
+        )
 
     @ioutils.doc_to_feather()
     def to_feather(self, path, *args, **kwargs):
@@ -6066,11 +6106,33 @@ def to_csv(
         )
 
     @ioutils.doc_to_orc()
-    def to_orc(self, fname, compression="snappy", *args, **kwargs):
+    def to_orc(
+        self,
+        fname,
+        compression="snappy",
+        statistics="ROWGROUP",
+        stripe_size_bytes=None,
+        stripe_size_rows=None,
+        row_index_stride=None,
+        cols_as_map_type=None,
+        storage_options=None,
+        index=None,
+    ):
         """{docstring}"""
         from cudf.io import orc
 
-        orc.to_orc(self, fname, compression, *args, **kwargs)
+        return orc.to_orc(
+            df=self,
+            fname=fname,
+            compression=compression,
+            statistics=statistics,
+            stripe_size_bytes=stripe_size_bytes,
+            stripe_size_rows=stripe_size_rows,
+            row_index_stride=row_index_stride,
+            cols_as_map_type=cols_as_map_type,
+            storage_options=storage_options,
+            index=index,
+        )
 
     @_cudf_nvtx_annotate
     def stack(self, level=-1, dropna=True):

python/cudf/cudf/io/avro.py

@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2019-2022, NVIDIA CORPORATION.
+
+import warnings
+
 import cudf
 from cudf import _lib as libcudf
 from cudf.utils import ioutils
@@ -11,26 +14,33 @@ def read_avro(
     columns=None,
     skiprows=None,
     num_rows=None,
-    **kwargs,
+    storage_options=None,
 ):
     """{docstring}"""
 
     is_single_filepath_or_buffer = ioutils.ensure_single_filepath_or_buffer(
         path_or_data=filepath_or_buffer,
-        **kwargs,
+        storage_options=storage_options,
     )
     if not is_single_filepath_or_buffer:
         raise NotImplementedError(
             "`read_avro` does not yet support reading multiple files"
         )
 
     filepath_or_buffer, compression = ioutils.get_reader_filepath_or_buffer(
-        path_or_data=filepath_or_buffer, compression=None, **kwargs
+        path_or_data=filepath_or_buffer,
+        compression=None,
+        storage_options=storage_options,
     )
     if compression is not None:
         ValueError("URL content-encoding decompression is not supported")
 
     if engine == "cudf":
+        warnings.warn(
+            "The `engine` parameter is deprecated and will be removed in a "
+            "future release",
+            FutureWarning,
+        )
         return cudf.DataFrame._from_data(
             *libcudf.avro.read_avro(
                 filepath_or_buffer, columns, skiprows, num_rows

python/cudf/cudf/io/csv.py

@@ -61,6 +61,9 @@ def read_csv(
             "`use_python_file_object=False`"
         )
 
+    if bytes_per_thread is None:
+        bytes_per_thread = ioutils._BYTES_PER_THREAD_DEFAULT
+
     is_single_filepath_or_buffer = ioutils.ensure_single_filepath_or_buffer(
         path_or_data=filepath_or_buffer,
         storage_options=storage_options,
@@ -76,9 +79,7 @@ def read_csv(
         iotypes=(BytesIO, StringIO, NativeFile),
         use_python_file_object=use_python_file_object,
         storage_options=storage_options,
-        bytes_per_thread=256_000_000
-        if bytes_per_thread is None
-        else bytes_per_thread,
+        bytes_per_thread=bytes_per_thread,
     )
 
     if na_values is not None and is_scalar(na_values):

python/cudf/cudf/io/json.py

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2019-2022, NVIDIA CORPORATION.
+
 import warnings
 from collections import abc
 from io import BytesIO, StringIO
@@ -17,22 +18,23 @@
 def read_json(
     path_or_buf,
     engine="auto",
-    dtype=True,
+    orient=None,
+    dtype=None,
     lines=False,
     compression="infer",
     byte_range=None,
     keep_quotes=False,
+    storage_options=None,
     *args,
     **kwargs,
 ):
     """{docstring}"""
 
-    if not isinstance(dtype, (abc.Mapping, bool)):
-        warnings.warn(
-            "passing 'dtype' as list is deprecated, instead pass "
-            "a dict of column name and types key-value paris."
-            "in future versions 'dtype' can only be a dict or bool",
-            FutureWarning,
+    if dtype is not None and not isinstance(dtype, (abc.Mapping, bool)):
+        raise TypeError(
+            "'dtype' parameter only supports "
+            "a dict of column names and types as key-value pairs, "
+            f"or a bool, or None. Got {type(dtype)}"
         )
 
     if engine == "cudf" and not lines:
@@ -45,16 +47,34 @@ def read_json(
     if engine == "auto":
         engine = "cudf" if lines else "pandas"
     if engine == "cudf" or engine == "cudf_experimental":
+        if dtype is None:
+            dtype = True
+
+        if kwargs:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "cudf engine doesn't support the "
+                f"following keyword arguments: {list(kwargs.keys())}"
+            )
+        if args:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "cudf engine doesn't support the "
+                f"following positional arguments: {list(args)}"
+            )
+
         # Multiple sources are passed as a list. If a single source is passed,
         # wrap it in a list for unified processing downstream.
         if not is_list_like(path_or_buf):
             path_or_buf = [path_or_buf]
 
         filepaths_or_buffers = []
         for source in path_or_buf:
-            if ioutils.is_directory(source, **kwargs):
+            if ioutils.is_directory(
+                path_or_data=source, storage_options=storage_options
+            ):
                 fs = ioutils._ensure_filesystem(
-                    passed_filesystem=None, path=source, **kwargs
+                    passed_filesystem=None,
+                    path=source,
+                    storage_options=storage_options,
                 )
                 source = ioutils.stringify_pathlike(source)
                 source = fs.sep.join([source, "*.json"])
@@ -64,7 +84,7 @@ def read_json(
                 compression=compression,
                 iotypes=(BytesIO, StringIO),
                 allow_raw_text_input=True,
-                **kwargs,
+                storage_options=storage_options,
             )
             if isinstance(tmp_source, list):
                 filepaths_or_buffers.extend(tmp_source)
@@ -88,7 +108,7 @@ def read_json(
 
         if not ioutils.ensure_single_filepath_or_buffer(
             path_or_data=path_or_buf,
-            **kwargs,
+            storage_options=storage_options,
         ):
             raise NotImplementedError(
                 "`read_json` does not yet support reading "
@@ -100,28 +120,24 @@ def read_json(
             compression=compression,
             iotypes=(BytesIO, StringIO),
             allow_raw_text_input=True,
-            **kwargs,
+            storage_options=storage_options,
         )
 
-        if kwargs.get("orient") == "table":
-            pd_value = pd.read_json(
-                path_or_buf,
-                lines=lines,
-                compression=compression,
-                *args,
-                **kwargs,
-            )
-        else:
-            pd_value = pd.read_json(
-                path_or_buf,
-                lines=lines,
-                dtype=dtype,
-                compression=compression,
-                *args,
-                **kwargs,
-            )
+        pd_value = pd.read_json(
+            path_or_buf,
+            lines=lines,
+            dtype=dtype,
+            compression=compression,
+            storage_options=storage_options,
+            orient=orient,
+            *args,
+            **kwargs,
+        )
         df = cudf.from_pandas(pd_value)
 
+    if dtype is None:
+        dtype = True
+
     if dtype is True or isinstance(dtype, abc.Mapping):
         # There exists some dtypes in the result columns that is inferred.
         # Find them and map them to the default dtypes.