html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,performed_via_github_app,issue
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/pull/7323#issuecomment-1419917480,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/7323,1419917480,IC_kwDOAMm_X85Uojio,83403825,2023-02-06T23:10:39Z,2023-02-06T23:10:39Z,NONE,"@jhamman yes, I think it's alright to close. The issue seems to arise from the use of `.tolist()`, having to convert every value to a python `float` so that it may be retuned in a dictionary as is acceptable for JSON, causing the memory spike.

will try @Illviljan suggestion (thanks!) , `to_json` calls `.compute` but not sure if it calls `.tolist()`, in case it avoids it, that should result in greater memory efficiency. ","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,1465047346
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/pull/7323#issuecomment-1328142597,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/7323,1328142597,IC_kwDOAMm_X85PKdkF,83403825,2022-11-27T00:48:34Z,2022-11-27T02:00:10Z,NONE,"> I'm not sure if this breaks the data model of xarray leaving inconsistent sizes?
> 
> Also this seems like a very corner usecase, I don't think it is intended to write DataArrays in ASCII.
> 
> But I let some more senior devs of xarray be the judge here :)


Made these for work (big data, government). Is useful when trying to provide data values back to end user after all data manipulation has been done.  (Aka the initial Xarray.DataArray is not longer needed) 

best native solution that exists (from what I see) is `.to_dict()` which is memory inefficient. (Had memory errors at work when trying, hence all the tests provided in the gist). Basically a user can call `to_dict` with `data = false` and then add the data values using the above 2 functions to the resulting dictionary in a more memory efficient way.

Use cases would be in any web service that would like to provide the final data values back to a user in JSON.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,1465047346
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/pull/7323#issuecomment-1327982136,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/7323,1327982136,IC_kwDOAMm_X85PJ2Y4,83403825,2022-11-26T05:09:04Z,2022-11-26T05:09:04Z,NONE,ran ` python -m pip uninstall urllib3-secure-extra` for Doctests fail as suggested. Get the following message: `WARNING: Skipping urllib3-secure-extra as it is not installed.`,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,1465047346