[backport 2.3.x] TST: update xfail xarray version check in to_xarray test (#61648) (#61652)

TST: update xfail xarray version check in to_xarray test (#61648)

Author: jorisvandenbossche

pandas/tests/generic/test_to_xarray.py

@@ -6,11 +6,13 @@
     DataFrame,
     MultiIndex,
     Series,
+    StringDtype,
     date_range,
 )
 import pandas._testing as tm
+from pandas.util.version import Version
 
-pytest.importorskip("xarray")
+xarray = pytest.importorskip("xarray")
 
 
 class TestDataFrameToXArray:
@@ -88,8 +90,20 @@ def test_to_xarray_with_multiindex(self, df, using_infer_string):
 
 
 class TestSeriesToXArray:
-    def test_to_xarray_index_types(self, index_flat):
+    def test_to_xarray_index_types(self, index_flat, request):
         index = index_flat
+        if (
+            isinstance(index.dtype, StringDtype)
+            and index.dtype.storage == "pyarrow"
+            and Version(xarray.__version__) > Version("2024.9.0")
+            and Version(xarray.__version__) < Version("2025.6.0")
+        ):
+            request.applymarker(
+                pytest.mark.xfail(
+                    reason="xarray calling reshape of ArrowExtensionArray",
+                    raises=NotImplementedError,
+                )
+            )
         # MultiIndex is tested in test_to_xarray_with_multiindex
 
         from xarray import DataArray