Add warnings for datetimes

sdv/metadata/multi_table.py

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
     create_columns_node, create_summarized_columns_node, visualize_graph)
 
 LOGGER = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+WARNINGS_COLUMN_ORDER = ['Table Name', 'Column Name', 'sdtype', 'datetime_format']
 
 
 class MultiTableMetadata:
@@ -694,6 +695,7 @@ def _validate_single_table(self, errors):
                 errors.append(error_message)
             try:
                 table.validate()
+
             except Exception as error:
                 errors.append('\n')
                 title = f'Table: {table_name}'
@@ -753,9 +755,12 @@ def _validate_missing_tables(self, data):
     def _validate_all_tables(self, data):
         """Validate every table of the data has a valid table/metadata pair."""
         errors = []
+        warning_dataframes = []
         for table_name, table_data in data.items():
+            table_sdtype_warnings = defaultdict(list)
             try:
-                self.tables[table_name].validate_data(table_data)
+                with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True):
+                    self.tables[table_name].validate_data(table_data, table_sdtype_warnings)
 
             except InvalidDataError as error:
                 error_msg = f"Table: '{table_name}'"
@@ -770,6 +775,23 @@ def _validate_all_tables(self, data):
             except KeyError:
                 continue
 
+            finally:
+                if table_sdtype_warnings:
+                    table_sdtype_warnings['Table Name'].extend(
+                        [table_name] * len(table_sdtype_warnings['Column Name'])
+                    )
+                    df = pd.DataFrame(table_sdtype_warnings, columns=WARNINGS_COLUMN_ORDER)
+                    warning_dataframes.append(df)
+
+        if warning_dataframes:
+            df = pd.concat(warning_dataframes)
+            warnings.warn(
+                "No 'datetime_format' is present in the metadata for the following columns:\n "
+                f'{df.to_string(index=False)}\n\n'
+                'Without this specification, SDV may not be able to accurately parse the data. '
+                "We recommend adding datetime formats using 'update_column'."
+            )
+
         return errors
 
     def _validate_foreign_keys(self, data):

sdv/metadata/single_table.py

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 import logging
 import re
 import warnings
+from collections import defaultdict
 from copy import deepcopy
 from datetime import datetime
 
@@ -1030,8 +1031,16 @@ def _get_invalid_column_values(column, validation_function):
 
         return set(column[~valid])
 
-    def _validate_column_data(self, column):
-        """Validate values of the column satisfy its sdtype properties."""
+    def _validate_column_data(self, column, sdtype_warnings):
+        """Validate values of the column satisfy its sdtype properties.
+
+        Args:
+            column (pd.Series):
+                The data to validate against.
+            sdtype_warnings (defaultdict[list]):
+                A ``defaultdict`` with ``list`` to add warning messages to.
+
+        """
         column_metadata = self.columns[column.name]
         sdtype = column_metadata['sdtype']
         invalid_values = None
@@ -1060,13 +1069,18 @@ def _validate_column_data(self, column):
                     lambda x: pd.isna(x) | _is_datetime_type(x)
                 )
 
+            if datetime_format is None and column.dtype == 'O':
+                sdtype_warnings['Column Name'].append(column.name)
+                sdtype_warnings['sdtype'].append(sdtype)
+                sdtype_warnings['datetime_format'].append(datetime_format)
+
         if invalid_values:
             invalid_values = _format_invalid_values_string(invalid_values, 3)
             return [f"Invalid values found for {sdtype} column '{column.name}': {invalid_values}."]
 
         return []
 
-    def validate_data(self, data):
+    def validate_data(self, data, sdtype_warnings=None):
         """Validate the data matches the metadata.
 
         Checks the metadata follows the following rules:
@@ -1079,6 +1093,7 @@ def validate_data(self, data):
             data (pd.DataFrame):
                 The data to validate.
         """
+        sdtype_warnings = sdtype_warnings if sdtype_warnings is not None else defaultdict(list)
         if not isinstance(data, pd.DataFrame):
             raise ValueError(f'Data must be a DataFrame, not a {type(data)}.')
 
@@ -1094,7 +1109,18 @@ def validate_data(self, data):
 
         # Every column must satisfy the properties of their sdtypes
         for column in data:
-            errors += self._validate_column_data(data[column])
+            errors += self._validate_column_data(data[column], sdtype_warnings)
+
+        if sdtype_warnings is not None and len(sdtype_warnings):
+            df = pd.DataFrame(sdtype_warnings)
+            message = (
+                "No 'datetime_format' is present in the metadata for the following columns:\n"
+                f'{df.to_string(index=False)}\n'
+                'Without this specification, SDV may not be able to accurately parse the data. '
+                "We recommend adding datetime formats using 'update_column'."
+            )
+
+            warnings.warn(message)
 
         if errors:
             raise InvalidDataError(errors)