Prompt:
Write a sample Java code snippet that writes data to a Parquet file using Apache Beam.

Response:
Your Apache Beam pipeline can write data to Apache Parquet files using the ParquetIO connector. Here is an example of how to achieve this:

```java
package parquet;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;
import org.apache.avro.Schema;
import org.apache.avro.generic.GenericRecord;
import org.apache.avro.generic.GenericRecordBuilder;
import org.apache.avro.reflect.ReflectData;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.Pipeline;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.extensions.avro.coders.AvroCoder;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.io.FileIO;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.io.parquet.ParquetIO;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.options.Description;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.options.PipelineOptions;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.options.PipelineOptionsFactory;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.options.Validation;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.transforms.Create;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.transforms.MapElements;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.transforms.SimpleFunction;

public class WriteSampleParquetFile {

    // Represents a DTO to be written to Parquet.
    public static class SampleRecord implements Serializable {
        public static final String COLUMN_ID = "id";
        public static final String COLUMN_MONTH = "month";
        public static final String COLUMN_AMOUNT = "amount";

        private int id;
        private String month;
        private String amount;

        public SampleRecord() {}

        public SampleRecord(int id, String month, String amount) {
            this.id = id;
            this.month = month;
            this.amount = amount;
        }

        public int getId() {
            return id;
        }

        public String getMonth() {
            return month;
        }

        public String getAmount() {
            return amount;
        }
    }

    // Pipeline options for writing to Parquet files.
    public interface WriteSampleParquetFileOptions extends PipelineOptions {
        @Description("A file path to write sample Parquet files to")
        @Validation.Required
        String getPath();

        void setPath(String path);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        WriteSampleParquetFileOptions options =
            PipelineOptionsFactory.fromArgs(args).withValidation().as(WriteSampleParquetFileOptions.class);

        // Get the Avro schema for the SampleRecord object.
        Schema sampleRecordSchema = ReflectData.get().getSchema(SampleRecord.class);

        // Create a pipeline.
        Pipeline p = Pipeline.create(options);

        // Create a list of SampleRecord objects.
        List<SampleRecord> rows =
            Arrays.asList(
                new SampleRecord(1, "January", "$1000"),
                new SampleRecord(2, "February", "$2000"),
                new SampleRecord(3, "March", "$3000"));
        // Apply the Create transform to the pipeline to create a PCollection from the list of SampleRecord objects.
        p.apply("Create", Create.of(rows))
            // Apply the MapElements transform to the pipeline to map the SampleRecord objects to GenericRecord objects.
            .apply(
                "Map Sample record to GenericRecord",
                MapElements.via(new MapSampleRecordToGenericRecord(sampleRecordSchema)))
            // Set the coder for the GenericRecord objects to AvroCoder.
            .setCoder(AvroCoder.of(sampleRecordSchema))
            // Apply the FileIO.write() transform to the pipeline to write the GenericRecord objects to a Parquet file.
            .apply(
                "Write Parquet file",
                FileIO.<GenericRecord>write()
                    .via(ParquetIO.sink(sampleRecordSchema))
                    .to(options.getPath()));
        // Run the pipeline.
        p.run();
    }

    // A SimpleFunction that maps SampleRecord objects to GenericRecord objects.
    private static class MapSampleRecordToGenericRecord
      extends SimpleFunction<SampleRecord, GenericRecord> {

        private final Schema schema;

        public MapSampleRecordToGenericRecord(Schema schema) {
          this.schema = schema;
        }

        // Maps a SampleRecord object to a GenericRecord object.
        @Override
        public GenericRecord apply(SampleRecord input) {
            GenericRecordBuilder builder = new GenericRecordBuilder(schema);

            builder
                .set(SampleRecord.COLUMN_MONTH, input.getMonth())
                .set(SampleRecord.COLUMN_AMOUNT, input.getAmount())
                .set(SampleRecord.COLUMN_ID, input.getId());
            return builder.build();
        }
    }
}
```

The `WriteSampleParquetFileOptions` class is utilized to define the command-line argument `--path`, specifying the path where the Parquet file should be written. This code uses pipeline options to define the required `path` argument.