wjones127 commented on code in PR #34133:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/34133#discussion_r1148720269


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csharp/src/Apache.Arrow/C/CArrowSchemaExporter.cs:
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+
+
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.IO;
+using System.Linq;
+using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
+using Apache.Arrow.Types;
+
+namespace Apache.Arrow.C
+{
+    public static class CArrowSchemaExporter
+    {
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Export a type to a <see cref="CArrowSchema"/>.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="datatype">The datatype to export</param>
+        /// <param name="schema">An allocated but uninitialized CArrowSchema 
pointer.</param>
+        /// <example>
+        /// <code>
+        /// CArrowSchema* exportPtr = CArrowSchema.Create();
+        /// CArrowSchemaExporter.ExportType(dataType, exportPtr);
+        /// foreign_import_function(exportPtr);
+        /// CArrowSchema.Free(exportPtr);
+        /// </code>
+        /// </example>
+        public static unsafe void ExportType(IArrowType datatype, 
CArrowSchema* schema)
+        {
+            if (datatype == null)
+            {
+                throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(datatype));
+            }
+            if (schema == null)
+            {
+                throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(schema));
+            }
+            if (schema->release != null)
+            {
+                throw new ArgumentException("Cannot export schema to a struct 
that is already initialized.");
+            }
+
+            schema->format = StringUtil.ToCStringUtf8(GetFormat(datatype));
+            schema->name = null;
+            schema->metadata = null;
+            schema->flags = GetFlags(datatype);
+
+            schema->children = ConstructChildren(datatype, out var 
numChildren);
+            schema->n_children = numChildren;
+
+            schema->dictionary = ConstructDictionary(datatype);
+
+            schema->release = (delegate* unmanaged[Stdcall]<CArrowSchema*, 
void>)Marshal.GetFunctionPointerForDelegate(
+                ReleaseCArrowSchema);
+
+            schema->private_data = null;
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Export a field to a <see cref="CArrowSchema"/>.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="field">The field to export</param>
+        /// <param name="schema">An allocated but uninitialized CArrowSchema 
pointer.</param>
+        /// <example>
+        /// <code>
+        /// CArrowSchema* exportPtr = CArrowSchema.Create();
+        /// CArrowSchemaExporter.ExportType(field, exportPtr);
+        /// foreign_import_function(exportPtr);
+        /// CArrowSchema.Free(exportPtr);
+        /// </code>
+        /// </example>
+        public static unsafe void ExportField(Field field, CArrowSchema* 
schema)
+        {
+            ExportType(field.DataType, schema);
+            schema->name = StringUtil.ToCStringUtf8(field.Name);
+            // TODO: field metadata

Review Comment:
   I've created an umbrella issue to track the remaining C data interface tasks 
(https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/33856) and another one to track 
remaining data types to implement 
(https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/34736).



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