You are working on the JDASoftwareGroup/kartothek repository. The source code is checked out at /testbed at…

You are working on the JDASoftwareGroup/kartothek repository. The source code is checked out at /testbed at…: a task in SWE-Lego-RL-2699 (Harbor dataset). Currently core.dataset.DatasetMetadataBase.get indices as dataframe loads date type columns as object. A date as object flag for this function…

The task

Currently core.dataset.DatasetMetadataBase.get_indices_as_dataframe loads date type columns as object. A `date_as_object` flag for this function would be useful.

Part of Lego-X/Lego-RL-2699.