tustvold commented on code in PR #3685:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/3685#discussion_r1101840067
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arrow/src/ffi.rs:
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@@ -24,68 +24,61 @@
//! The second interface maps native Rust types to the Rust-specific
implementation of Arrow such as `format` to `Datatype`,
//! `Buffer`, etc. This is handled by `ArrowArray`.
//!
+//!
+//! Export to FFI
+//!
//! ```rust
//! # use std::sync::Arc;
-//! # use arrow::array::{Int32Array, Array, ArrayData, export_array_into_raw,
make_array, make_array_from_raw};
-//! # use arrow::error::{Result, ArrowError};
+//! # use arrow::array::{Int32Array, Array, ArrayData, make_array};
+//! # use arrow::error::Result;
//! # use arrow::compute::kernels::arithmetic;
//! # use arrow::ffi::{ArrowArray, FFI_ArrowArray, FFI_ArrowSchema};
-//! # use std::convert::TryFrom;
//! # fn main() -> Result<()> {
//! // create an array natively
//! let array = Int32Array::from(vec![Some(1), None, Some(3)]);
+//! let data = array.into_data();
//!
-//! // export it
-//!
-//! let ffi_array = ArrowArray::try_new(array.data().clone())?;
-//! let (array_ptr, schema_ptr) = ArrowArray::into_raw(ffi_array);
-//!
-//! // consumed and used by something else...
+//! // Export it
+//! let out_array = FFI_ArrowArray::new(&data);
+//! let out_schema = FFI_ArrowSchema::try_from(data.data_type())?;
//!
//! // import it
-//! let array = unsafe { make_array_from_raw(array_ptr, schema_ptr)? };
+//! let array = ArrowArray::new(out_array, out_schema);
Review Comment:
Because I wanted to reduce the number of methods that pass around raw
pointers, and wanted to avoid making a breaking change
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