On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 3:34 PM Antoine Pitrou <anto...@python.org> wrote: > > > Le 07/05/2020 à 21:32, Micah Kornfield a écrit : > > 2. Adding the missing methods 'field(index)' function to StructType or add > > 'child(index)' to Schema? > > Both sound fine to me. >
There's a JIRA https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-3509 about this. I might lean toward normalizing on the "field" name > > If we pursue this approach do people have a > > preference on trying to make a common ancestor interface and making these > > virtual method calls? Or using the naming correspondence inside of > > templated code? > > Use the naming correspondence. IMHO there's no reason for an interface. Agreed > > Regards > > Antoine.