Github user JamesRTaylor commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-phoenix/pull/8#discussion_r9854967
You do still need to do some of this work, but you do it up front at
construction time. You just need to figure out the array element type first. It
can be based solely on the data types of the children (not on the actual data).
If all children are fixed width, then you have a fixed width array with a size
of the biggest fixed width child. If any of the children are not fixed width,
then you have a variable array. You need to figure out the common base type
based on all the children (there's example code around for this - I think you
have this already).
Based on this, at construction time you need to wrap children in a
CoerceExpression to coerce them to the expected type (i.e. the array element
type). Then, as you evaluate each child, they will all be of the same type, so
you can just serialize them as you go. No need to turn them into objects first.
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