Not rocket science by any means, but with Google returning exactly 0 search results for this error message, hope this is helpful for some ✌️
Problem
You run into a BigQuery “Cannot encode struct fields with empty names” error message when working with User-Defined Javascript Functions (JS UDF):
Potential solution
Make sure you name not just the struct (`arr` in this example), but also the fields in the struct:
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