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Julien Le Dem commented on ARROW-255:
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If we do that already for length collection offsets then that sounds good to
me. I'll update the description
> Finalize Dictionary representation
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> Key: ARROW-255
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-255
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Format
> Reporter: Julien Le Dem
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> format/Messages.fbs mentions DictionaryBatches with an id but does not
> specify where they are referenced.
> We should add a {{dictionary: long}} in Field that references the dictionary
> id:
> Field:
> https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/34e7f48cb71428c4d78cf00d8fdf0045532d6607/format/Message.fbs#L86
> Dictionary id:
> https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/34e7f48cb71428c4d78cf00d8fdf0045532d6607/format/Message.fbs#L165
> We need a spec in format/Layout.md that describes the dictionary layout.
> When dictionary encoded the value vector is an array of unsigned int32.
> The dictionary vector is a Vector of the type of the value. indexed by their
> id in the dictionary.
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