SNOW-1665697: add open_new_result in document API

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 - Added support for `DatetimeIndex.mean` and `DatetimeIndex.std` methods.
 - Added support for `Resampler.asfreq`.
 - Added support for `resample` frequency `W`, `ME`, `YE` with `closed = "left"`.
+- Added support for file writes. This feature is currently in private preview.
 
 #### Bug Fixes
 

src/snowflake/snowpark/files.py

@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@
 import sys
 from io import RawIOBase
 
+from snowflake.snowpark._internal.utils import private_preview
+
 # Python 3.8 needs to use typing.Iterable because collections.abc.Iterable is not subscriptable
 # Python 3.9 can use both
 # Python 3.10 needs to use collections.abc.Iterable because typing.Iterable is removed
@@ -44,6 +46,7 @@ def __init__(
         is_owner_file: bool = False,
         *,
         require_scoped_url: bool = True,
+        from_result_api: bool = False,
     ) -> None:
         super().__init__()
         # The URL/URI of the file to be opened by the SnowflakeFile object
@@ -122,6 +125,20 @@ def isatty(self) -> None:
         """
         raise NotImplementedError(_DEFER_IMPLEMENTATION_ERR_MSG)
 
+    @classmethod
+    @private_preview(version="1.22.1")
+    def open_new_result(cls, mode: str = "w") -> SnowflakeFile:
+        """
+        Returns a :class:`~snowflake.snowpark.file.SnowflakeFile`.
+        In UDF and Stored Procedures, the object works like a Python IOBase object and as a wrapper for an IO stream of remote files. The IO Stream is to support the file operations defined in this class.
+
+        This stream will open a writable result file that will be materialized when it's returned by a UDF or Stored Procedure. When the file is materialized then file_uri will be set to a scoped URL that temporarily references this file.
+
+        Args:
+            mode: A string used to mark the type of an IO stream.
+        """
+        return cls("new results file", mode, require_scoped_url=0, from_result_api=True)
+
     def read(self, size: int = -1) -> None:
         """
         See https://docs.python.org/3/library/io.html#io.RawIOBase.read

tests/unit/test_files.py

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 
 import pytest
 
+from snowflake.snowpark._internal.utils import private_preview
 from snowflake.snowpark.files import _DEFER_IMPLEMENTATION_ERR_MSG, SnowflakeFile
 
 
@@ -15,6 +16,13 @@ def test_create_snowflakefile():
         assert snowflake_file._mode == "r"
 
 
+@private_preview(version="1.22.1")
+def test_write_snowflakefile():
+    with SnowflakeFile.open_new_result("w") as snowflake_file:
+        assert snowflake_file._file_location == "new results file"
+        assert snowflake_file._mode == "w"
+
+
 def test_snowflake_file_attribute():
     with SnowflakeFile.open("test_file_location") as snowflake_file:
         assert snowflake_file.buffer is None