yordan-pavlov commented on a change in pull request #8794:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/8794#discussion_r534500610



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File path: rust/arrow/src/compute/kernels/cast.rs
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@@ -376,6 +378,27 @@ pub fn cast(array: &ArrayRef, to_type: &DataType) -> 
Result<ArrayRef> {
             Int64 => cast_string_to_numeric::<Int64Type>(array),
             Float32 => cast_string_to_numeric::<Float32Type>(array),
             Float64 => cast_string_to_numeric::<Float64Type>(array),
+            Date32(DateUnit::Day) => {
+                use chrono::{NaiveDate, NaiveTime};
+                let zero_time = NaiveTime::from_hms(0, 0, 0);
+                let string_array = 
array.as_any().downcast_ref::<StringArray>().unwrap();
+                let mut builder = 
PrimitiveBuilder::<Date32Type>::new(string_array.len());
+                for i in 0..string_array.len() {
+                    if string_array.is_null(i) {
+                        builder.append_null()?;
+                    } else {
+                        match NaiveDate::parse_from_str(string_array.value(i), 
"%Y-%m-%d")
+                        {
+                            Ok(date) => builder.append_value(
+                                (date.and_time(zero_time).timestamp() / 
SECONDS_IN_DAY)
+                                    as i32,
+                            )?,
+                            Err(_) => builder.append_null()?, // not a valid 
date

Review comment:
       I was thinking about that as well, but this is a pattern repeated 
throughout the cast kernel so I thought it best to follow it; what do you think 
would be better to do instead?




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