Add examples for arrow crate to readme and library documentation

Readme.md

@@ -32,7 +32,53 @@ arrays, and deserialization from arrays to Rust structs.
 [datafusion]: https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion/
 
 ## Example
+Given this Rust structure
+```rust
+#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)]
+struct Record {
+    a: f32,
+    b: i32,
+}
 
+let records = vec![
+    Record { a: 1.0, b: 1 },
+    Record { a: 2.0, b: 2 },
+    Record { a: 3.0, b: 3 },
+];
+```
+
+### Serialize to `arrow` `RecordBatch`
+```rust
+use serde_arrow::schema::{TracingOptions, SerdeArrowSchema};
+
+// Determine Arrow schema
+let fields =
+  SerdeArrowSchema::from_type::<Record>(TracingOptions::default())?
+  .to_arrow_fields()
+
+// Convert to Arrow arrays
+let arrays = serde_arrow::to_arrow(&fields, &records)?;
+
+// Form a RecordBatch
+let schema = Schema::new(&fields);
+let batch = RecordBatch::try_new(schema.into(), arrays)?;
+```
+
+This `RecordBatch` can now be written to disk using [ArrowWriter] from the [parquet] crate.
+
+[ArrowWriter]: https://docs.rs/parquet/latest/parquet/arrow/arrow_writer/struct.ArrowWriter.html
+[parquet]: https://docs.rs/parquet/latest/parquet/
+
+
+```rust
+let file = File::create("example.pq");
+let mut writer = ArrowWriter::try_new(file, batch.schema(), None)?;
+writer.write(&batch)?;
+writer.close()?;
+```
+
+
+### Serialize to `arrow2` arrays
 ```rust
 use serde_arrow::schema::{TracingOptions, SerdeArrowSchema};
 
@@ -69,16 +115,32 @@ write_chunk(
 )?;
 ```
 
+### Usage from python 
+
 The written file can now be read in Python via
 
 ```python
 # using polars
-import polars as pl
-pl.read_parquet("example.pq")
+>>> import polars as pl
+>>> pl.read_parquet("example.pq")
+shape: (3, 2)
+┌─────┬─────┐
+│ a   ┆ b   │
+│ --- ┆ --- │
+│ f32 ┆ i32 │
+╞═════╪═════╡
+│ 1.0 ┆ 1   │
+│ 2.0 ┆ 2   │
+│ 3.0 ┆ 3   │
+└─────┴─────┘
 
 # using pandas
-import pandas as pd
-pd.read_parquet("example.pq")
+>>> import pandas as pd
+>>> pd.read_parquet("example.pq")
+     a  b
+0  1.0  1
+1  2.0  2
+2  3.0  3
 ```
 
 [arrow2-guide]: https://jorgecarleitao.github.io/arrow2

serde_arrow/src/lib.rs

@@ -45,7 +45,49 @@
 //! - the [status summary][_impl::docs::status] for an overview over the
 //!   supported Arrow and Rust constructs
 //!
-//! ## Example
+//! ## `arrow` Example
+//! ```rust
+//! # use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
+//! # #[cfg(feature = "has_arrow")]
+//! # fn main() -> serde_arrow::Result<()> {
+//! use arrow::datatypes::Schema;
+//! use arrow::record_batch::RecordBatch;
+//! use serde_arrow::schema::{TracingOptions, SerdeArrowSchema};
+//!
+//! ##[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)]
+//! struct Record {
+//!     a: f32,
+//!     b: i32,
+//! }
+//!
+//! let records = vec![
+//!     Record { a: 1.0, b: 1 },
+//!     Record { a: 2.0, b: 2 },
+//!     Record { a: 3.0, b: 3 },
+//! ];
+//!
+//! // Determine Arrow schema
+//! let fields = Vec::<Field>::from_type::<Record>(TracingOptions::default())?;
+//!
+//! // Convert Rust records to Arrow arrays
+//! let arrays = serde_arrow::to_arrow(&fields, &records)?;
+//!
+//! // Create RecordBatch
+//! let schema = Schema::new(fields);
+//! let batch = RecordBatch::try_new(schema, arrays)?;
+//! # Ok(())
+//! # }
+//! # #[cfg(not(feature = "has_arrow"))]
+//! # fn main() { }
+//! ```
+//!
+//! The `RecordBatch` can then be written to disk, e.g., as parquet using
+//! the [`ArrowWriter`] from the [`parquet`] crate.
+//!
+//! [`ArrowWriter`]: https://docs.rs/parquet/latest/parquet/arrow/arrow_writer/struct.ArrowWriter.html
+//! [`parquet`]: https://docs.rs/parquet/latest/parquet/
+//!
+//! ## `arrow2` Example
 //!
 //! Requires one of `arrow2` feature (see below).
 //!