GitHub issue #3965: TypeError: Couldn't cast array of type for JSONLines dataset
State: closed | Created: 2022-03-18T15:17:53Z

## Describe the bug
One of the [course participants](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/chapter-5-questions/11744/20?u=lewtun) is having trouble loading a JSONLines dataset that's composed of the GitHub issues from `spacy` (see stack trace below). 

This reminds me a bit of #2799 where one can load the dataset in `pandas` but not in `datasets` and perhaps increasing the `block_size` is needed again.

## Steps to reproduce the bug
```python
from datasets import load_dataset
from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_url
import pandas as pd

# returns 'https://huggingface.co/datasets/Evan/spaCy-github-issues/resolve/main/spacy-issues.jsonl'
data_files = hf_hub_url(repo_id="Evan/spaCy-github-issues", filename="spacy-issues.jsonl", repo_type="dataset")
# throws TypeError: Couldn't cast array of type
dset = load_dataset("json", data_files=data_files, split="test")
# no problem with pandas - note this take a while as the file is >2GB
df = pd.read_json(data_files, orient="records", lines=True)
df.head()
```

## Expected results
I can load any line-separated JSON file, similar to pandas.

## Actual results
```
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Users/lewtun/miniconda3/envs/hf/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/load.py", line 1702, in load_dataset
    builder_instance.download_and_prepare(
  File "/Users/lewtun/miniconda3/envs/hf/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 594, in download_and_prepare
    self._download_and_prepare(
  File "/Users/lewtun/miniconda3/envs/hf/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 683, in _download_and_prepare
    self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
  File "/Users/lewtun/miniconda3/envs/hf/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1136, in _prepare_split
    writer.write_table(table)
  File "/Users/lewtun/miniconda3/envs/hf/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/arrow_writer.py", line 511, in write_table
    pa_table = table_cast(pa_table, self._schema)
  File "/Users/lewtun/miniconda3/envs/hf/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 1121, in table_cast
    return cast_table_to_features(table, Features.from_arrow_schema(schema))
  File "/Users/lewtun/miniconda3/envs/hf/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 1102, in cast_table_to_features
    arrays = [cast_array_to_feature(table[name], feature) for name, feature in features.items()]
  File "/Users/lewtun/miniconda3/envs/hf/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 1102, in <listcomp>
    arrays = [cast_array_to_feature(table[name], feature) for name, feature in features.items()]
  File "/Users/lewtun/miniconda3/envs/hf/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 944, in wrapper
    return func(array, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/Users/lewtun/miniconda3/envs/hf/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 918, in wrapper
    return pa.chunked_array([func(chunk, *args, **kwargs) for chunk in array.chunks])
  File "/Users/lewtun/miniconda3/envs/hf/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 918, in <listcomp>
    return pa.chunked_array([func(chunk, *args, **kwargs) for chunk in array.chunks])
  File "/Users/lewtun/miniconda3/envs/hf/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 1086, in cast_array_to_feature
    return array_cast(array, feature(), allow_number_to_str=allow_number_to_str)
  File "/Users/lewtun/miniconda3/envs/hf/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 944, in wrapper
    return func(array, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/Users/lewtun/miniconda3/envs/hf/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 920, in wrapper
    return func(array, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/Users/lewtun/miniconda3/envs/hf/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 1019, in array_cast
    raise TypeError(f"Couldn't cast array of type\n{array.type}\nto\n{pa_type}")
TypeError: Couldn't cast array of type
struct<url: string, html_url: string, labels_url: string, id: int64, node_id: string, number: int64, title: string, description: string, creator: struct<login: string, id: int64, node_id: string, avatar_url: string, gravatar_id: string, url: string, html_url: string, followers_url: string, following_url: string, gists_url: string, starred_url: string, subscriptions_url: string, organizations_url: string, repos_url: string, events_url: string, received_events_url: string, type: string, site_admin: bool>, open_issues: int64, closed_issues: int64, state: string, created_at: timestamp[s], updated_at: timestamp[s], due_on: null, closed_at: timestamp[s]>
to
null
```

## Environment info
<!-- You can run the command `datasets-cli env` and copy-and-paste its output below. -->
- `datasets` version: 2.0.0
- Platform: macOS-10.16-x86_64-i386-64bit
- Python version: 3.9.7
- PyArrow version: 7.0.0
- Pandas version: 1.4.1