Add map_blocks and some testing support for array query expressions

conftest.py

@@ -1,8 +1,35 @@
 """Configuration for pytest."""
 
+import os
+
 import pytest
 
 
+def _use_dask_array(config: pytest.Config) -> bool:
+    env_value = os.environ.get("XR_USE_DASK_ARRAY", "")
+    return config.getoption("--use-dask-array") or env_value.lower() in {
+        "1",
+        "true",
+        "yes",
+        "on",
+    }
+
+
+def _register_dask_array() -> None:
+    try:
+        import dask_array.xarray
+    except ImportError as err:
+        raise pytest.UsageError(
+            "--use-dask-array requires dask-array to be importable"
+        ) from err
+
+    dask_array.xarray.register()
+    if not dask_array.xarray.isactive():
+        raise pytest.UsageError(
+            "--use-dask-array registered dask-array, but it is not the active dask chunk manager"
+        )
+
+
 def pytest_addoption(parser: pytest.Parser):
     """Add command-line flags for pytest."""
     parser.addoption("--run-flaky", action="store_true", help="runs flaky tests")
@@ -12,9 +39,31 @@ def pytest_addoption(parser: pytest.Parser):
         help="runs tests requiring a network connection",
     )
     parser.addoption("--run-mypy", action="store_true", help="runs mypy tests")
+    parser.addoption(
+        "--use-dask-array",
+        action="store_true",
+        help="register dask-array as xarray's dask chunk manager",
+    )
+
+
+def pytest_configure(config: pytest.Config):
+    config.addinivalue_line(
+        "markers",
+        "skip_with_dask_array: skip when dask-array is registered as xarray's dask chunk manager",
+    )
+    config.addinivalue_line(
+        "markers",
+        "xfail_with_dask_array: xfail when dask-array is registered as xarray's dask chunk manager",
+    )
+    if not _use_dask_array(config):
+        return
+
+    _register_dask_array()
 
 
 def pytest_runtest_setup(item):
+    if _use_dask_array(item.config):
+        _register_dask_array()
     # based on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47559524
     if "flaky" in item.keywords and not item.config.getoption("--run-flaky"):
         pytest.skip("set --run-flaky option to run flaky tests")
@@ -39,6 +88,18 @@ def pytest_collection_modifyitems(items):
             # marking approach, meaning that each test case must contain "mypy" in the
             # name.
             item.add_marker(pytest.mark.mypy)
+        if _use_dask_array(item.config) and "skip_with_dask_array" in item.keywords:
+            item.add_marker(
+                pytest.mark.skip(reason="skipped with dask-array chunk manager")
+            )
+        if _use_dask_array(item.config) and "xfail_with_dask_array" in item.keywords:
+            mark = item.get_closest_marker("xfail_with_dask_array")
+            kwargs = dict(mark.kwargs) if mark is not None else {}
+            kwargs.setdefault(
+                "reason", "expected failure with dask-array chunk manager"
+            )
+            kwargs.setdefault("strict", True)
+            item.add_marker(pytest.mark.xfail(**kwargs))
 
 
 @pytest.fixture(autouse=True)

xarray/backends/api.py

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 from xarray.core.types import ReadBuffer
 from xarray.core.utils import emit_user_level_warning, is_remote_uri
 from xarray.namedarray.daskmanager import DaskManager
-from xarray.namedarray.parallelcompat import guess_chunkmanager
+from xarray.namedarray.parallelcompat import guess_chunkmanager, list_chunkmanagers
 from xarray.namedarray.utils import _get_chunk
 from xarray.structure.chunks import _maybe_chunk
 from xarray.structure.combine import (
@@ -232,7 +232,11 @@ def _chunk_ds(
     chunkmanager = guess_chunkmanager(chunked_array_type)
 
     # TODO refactor to move this dask-specific logic inside the DaskManager class
-    if isinstance(chunkmanager, DaskManager):
+    registered_as_dask = any(
+        name == "dask" and manager is chunkmanager
+        for name, manager in list_chunkmanagers().items()
+    )
+    if isinstance(chunkmanager, DaskManager) or registered_as_dask:
         from dask.base import tokenize
 
         mtime = _get_mtime(filename_or_obj)

xarray/compat/dask_array_compat.py

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 from typing import Any
 
 from xarray.namedarray.parallelcompat import get_chunked_array_type
+from xarray.namedarray.pycompat import is_chunked_array
 from xarray.namedarray.utils import module_available
 
 
@@ -12,6 +13,8 @@ def reshape_blockwise(
     try:
         array_api = get_chunked_array_type(x).array_api
     except TypeError:
+        if is_chunked_array(x):
+            raise
         array_api = None
 
     if array_api is not None and hasattr(array_api, "reshape_blockwise"):
@@ -29,6 +32,23 @@ def sliding_window_view(
 ):
     # Backcompat for handling `automatic_rechunk`, delete when dask>=2024.11.0
     # Note that subok, writeable are unsupported by dask, so we ignore those in kwargs
+    try:
+        array_api = get_chunked_array_type(x).array_api
+    except TypeError:
+        if is_chunked_array(x):
+            raise
+        array_api = None
+
+    if array_api is not None:
+        array_sliding_window_view = getattr(array_api, "sliding_window_view", None)
+        if array_sliding_window_view is not None:
+            return array_sliding_window_view(
+                x,
+                window_shape=window_shape,
+                axis=axis,
+                automatic_rechunk=automatic_rechunk,
+            )
+
     from dask.array.lib.stride_tricks import sliding_window_view
 
     if module_available("dask", "2024.11.0"):

xarray/core/accessor_dt.py

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import warnings
-from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Generic
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Generic, cast
 
 import numpy as np
 import pandas as pd
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 )
 from xarray.core.types import T_DataArray
 from xarray.core.variable import IndexVariable, Variable
+from xarray.namedarray.parallelcompat import get_chunked_array_type
 from xarray.namedarray.utils import is_duck_dask_array
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
@@ -129,15 +130,14 @@ def _get_date_field(values, name, dtype):
         access_method = _access_through_cftimeindex
 
     if is_duck_dask_array(values):
-        from dask.array import map_blocks
-
+        chunkmanager = get_chunked_array_type(values)
         new_axis = chunks = None
         # isocalendar adds an axis
         if name == "isocalendar":
-            chunks = (3,) + values.chunksize
+            chunks = cast(tuple[int, ...], (3,) + values.chunksize)
             new_axis = 0
 
-        return map_blocks(
+        return chunkmanager.map_blocks(
             access_method, values, name, dtype=dtype, new_axis=new_axis, chunks=chunks
         )
     else:
@@ -187,10 +187,13 @@ def _round_field(values, name, freq):
 
     """
     if is_duck_dask_array(values):
-        from dask.array import map_blocks
-
-        dtype = np.datetime64 if is_np_datetime_like(values.dtype) else np.dtype("O")
-        return map_blocks(
+        chunkmanager = get_chunked_array_type(values)
+        dtype = (
+            np.dtype(values.dtype)
+            if is_np_datetime_like(values.dtype)
+            else np.dtype("O")
+        )
+        return chunkmanager.map_blocks(
             _round_through_series_or_index, values, name, freq=freq, dtype=dtype
         )
     else:
@@ -224,9 +227,8 @@ def _strftime(values, date_format):
     else:
         access_method = _strftime_through_cftimeindex
     if is_duck_dask_array(values):
-        from dask.array import map_blocks
-
-        return map_blocks(access_method, values, date_format)
+        chunkmanager = get_chunked_array_type(values)
+        return chunkmanager.map_blocks(access_method, values, date_format)
     else:
         return access_method(values, date_format)