alamb commented on code in PR #5481:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/5481#discussion_r1521261861


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arrow-array/src/array/byte_view_array.rs:
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+// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+// or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+// distributed with this work for additional information
+// regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+// to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+// "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+// with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+// software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+// "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+// KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+// specific language governing permissions and limitations
+// under the License.
+
+use crate::array::print_long_array;
+use crate::builder::GenericByteViewBuilder;
+use crate::iterator::ArrayIter;
+use crate::types::bytes::ByteArrayNativeType;
+use crate::types::{BinaryViewType, ByteViewType, StringViewType};
+use crate::{Array, ArrayAccessor, ArrayRef};
+use arrow_buffer::{Buffer, NullBuffer, ScalarBuffer};
+use arrow_data::{ArrayData, ArrayDataBuilder, ByteView};
+use arrow_schema::{ArrowError, DataType};
+use std::any::Any;
+use std::fmt::Debug;
+use std::marker::PhantomData;
+use std::sync::Arc;
+
+/// An array of variable length bytes view arrays

Review Comment:
   Maybe we can provide a link 
   
   ```suggestion
   /// [Variable-size Binary View Layout]: An array of variable length bytes 
view arrays.
   ///
   /// Different than [`GenericByteArray`] as it stores both an offset and 
length
   /// meaning that take / filter operations can be implemented without copying 
the underlying data.
   ///
   /// [Variable-size Binary View Layout]: 
https://arrow.apache.org/docs/format/Columnar.html#variable-size-binary-view-layout
   ```



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arrow-data/src/byte_view.rs:
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+// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+// or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+// distributed with this work for additional information
+// regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+// to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+// "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+// with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+// software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+// "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+// KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+// specific language governing permissions and limitations
+// under the License.
+
+use arrow_buffer::Buffer;
+use arrow_schema::ArrowError;
+
+#[derive(Debug, Copy, Clone, Default)]
+#[repr(C)]
+pub struct ByteView {
+    /// The length of the string/bytes.
+    pub length: u32,
+    /// First 4 bytes of string/bytes data.
+    pub prefix: u32,
+    /// The buffer index.
+    pub buffer_index: u32,
+    /// The offset into the buffer.
+    pub offset: u32,
+}
+
+impl ByteView {
+    #[inline(always)]
+    pub fn as_u128(self) -> u128 {
+        unsafe { std::mem::transmute(self) }
+    }
+}
+
+impl From<u128> for ByteView {
+    #[inline]
+    fn from(value: u128) -> Self {
+        unsafe { std::mem::transmute(value) }
+    }
+}
+
+impl From<ByteView> for u128 {
+    #[inline]
+    fn from(value: ByteView) -> Self {
+        value.as_u128()
+    }
+}
+
+/// Validates the combination of `views` and `buffers` is a valid BinaryView
+pub fn validate_binary_view(views: &[u128], buffers: &[Buffer]) -> Result<(), 
ArrowError> {
+    validate_view_impl(views, buffers, |_, _| Ok(()))
+}
+
+/// Validates the combination of `views` and `buffers` is a valid StringView
+pub fn validate_string_view(views: &[u128], buffers: &[Buffer]) -> Result<(), 
ArrowError> {
+    validate_view_impl(views, buffers, |idx, b| {
+        std::str::from_utf8(b).map_err(|e| {
+            ArrowError::InvalidArgumentError(format!(
+                "Encountered non-UTF-8 data at index {idx}: {e}"
+            ))
+        })?;
+        Ok(())
+    })
+}
+
+fn validate_view_impl<F>(views: &[u128], buffers: &[Buffer], f: F) -> 
Result<(), ArrowError>

Review Comment:
   As mentioned above, I think we should test this validation code to ensure 
soundness of the array creation



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arrow-array/src/array/byte_view_array.rs:
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+// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+// or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+// distributed with this work for additional information
+// regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+// to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+// "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+// with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+// software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+// "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+// KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+// specific language governing permissions and limitations
+// under the License.
+
+use crate::array::print_long_array;
+use crate::builder::GenericByteViewBuilder;
+use crate::iterator::ArrayIter;
+use crate::types::bytes::ByteArrayNativeType;
+use crate::types::{BinaryViewType, ByteViewType, StringViewType};
+use crate::{Array, ArrayAccessor, ArrayRef};
+use arrow_buffer::{Buffer, NullBuffer, ScalarBuffer};
+use arrow_data::{ArrayData, ArrayDataBuilder, ByteView};
+use arrow_schema::{ArrowError, DataType};
+use std::any::Any;
+use std::fmt::Debug;
+use std::marker::PhantomData;
+use std::sync::Arc;
+
+/// An array of variable length bytes view arrays
+pub struct GenericByteViewArray<T: ByteViewType + ?Sized> {
+    data_type: DataType,
+    views: ScalarBuffer<u128>,
+    buffers: Vec<Buffer>,
+    phantom: PhantomData<T>,
+    nulls: Option<NullBuffer>,
+}
+
+impl<T: ByteViewType + ?Sized> Clone for GenericByteViewArray<T> {
+    fn clone(&self) -> Self {
+        Self {
+            data_type: T::DATA_TYPE,
+            views: self.views.clone(),
+            buffers: self.buffers.clone(),
+            nulls: self.nulls.clone(),
+            phantom: Default::default(),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl<T: ByteViewType + ?Sized> GenericByteViewArray<T> {
+    /// Create a new [`GenericByteViewArray`] from the provided parts, 
panicking on failure
+    ///
+    /// # Panics
+    ///
+    /// Panics if [`GenericByteViewArray::try_new`] returns an error
+    pub fn new(views: ScalarBuffer<u128>, buffers: Vec<Buffer>, nulls: 
Option<NullBuffer>) -> Self {
+        Self::try_new(views, buffers, nulls).unwrap()
+    }
+
+    /// Create a new [`GenericByteViewArray`] from the provided parts, 
returning an error on failure
+    ///
+    /// # Errors
+    ///
+    /// * `views.len() != nulls.len()`
+    /// * [ByteViewType::validate] fails
+    pub fn try_new(
+        views: ScalarBuffer<u128>,
+        buffers: Vec<Buffer>,
+        nulls: Option<NullBuffer>,
+    ) -> Result<Self, ArrowError> {
+        T::validate(&views, &buffers)?;
+
+        if let Some(n) = nulls.as_ref() {
+            if n.len() != views.len() {
+                return Err(ArrowError::InvalidArgumentError(format!(
+                    "Incorrect length of null buffer for {}ViewArray, expected 
{} got {}",
+                    T::PREFIX,
+                    views.len(),
+                    n.len(),
+                )));
+            }
+        }
+
+        Ok(Self {
+            data_type: T::DATA_TYPE,
+            views,
+            buffers,
+            nulls,
+            phantom: Default::default(),
+        })
+    }
+
+    /// Create a new [`GenericByteViewArray`] from the provided parts, without 
validation
+    ///
+    /// # Safety
+    ///
+    /// Safe if [`Self::try_new`] would not error
+    pub unsafe fn new_unchecked(
+        views: ScalarBuffer<u128>,
+        buffers: Vec<Buffer>,
+        nulls: Option<NullBuffer>,
+    ) -> Self {
+        Self {
+            data_type: T::DATA_TYPE,
+            phantom: Default::default(),
+            views,
+            buffers,
+            nulls,
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Create a new [`GenericByteViewArray`] of length `len` where all values 
are null
+    pub fn new_null(len: usize) -> Self {
+        Self {
+            data_type: T::DATA_TYPE,
+            views: vec![0; len].into(),
+            buffers: vec![],
+            nulls: Some(NullBuffer::new_null(len)),
+            phantom: Default::default(),
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Creates a [`GenericByteViewArray`] based on an iterator of values 
without nulls
+    pub fn from_iter_values<Ptr, I>(iter: I) -> Self
+    where
+        Ptr: AsRef<T::Native>,
+        I: IntoIterator<Item = Ptr>,
+    {
+        let iter = iter.into_iter();
+        let mut builder = 
GenericByteViewBuilder::<T>::with_capacity(iter.size_hint().0);
+        for v in iter {
+            builder.append_value(v);
+        }
+        builder.finish()
+    }
+
+    /// Deconstruct this array into its constituent parts
+    pub fn into_parts(self) -> (ScalarBuffer<u128>, Vec<Buffer>, 
Option<NullBuffer>) {
+        (self.views, self.buffers, self.nulls)
+    }
+
+    /// Returns the views buffer
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn views(&self) -> &ScalarBuffer<u128> {
+        &self.views
+    }
+
+    /// Returns the buffers storing string data
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn data_buffers(&self) -> &[Buffer] {
+        &self.buffers
+    }
+
+    /// Returns the element at index `i`
+    /// # Panics
+    /// Panics if index `i` is out of bounds.
+    pub fn value(&self, i: usize) -> &T::Native {
+        assert!(
+            i < self.len(),
+            "Trying to access an element at index {} from a {}ViewArray of 
length {}",
+            i,
+            T::PREFIX,
+            self.len()
+        );
+
+        unsafe { self.value_unchecked(i) }
+    }
+
+    /// Returns the element at index `i`
+    /// # Safety
+    /// Caller is responsible for ensuring that the index is within the bounds 
of the array
+    pub unsafe fn value_unchecked(&self, idx: usize) -> &T::Native {
+        let v = self.views.get_unchecked(idx);
+        let len = *v as u32;
+        let b = if len <= 12 {
+            let ptr = self.views.as_ptr() as *const u8;
+            std::slice::from_raw_parts(ptr.add(idx * 16 + 4), len as usize)
+        } else {
+            let view = ByteView::from(*v);
+            let data = self.buffers.get_unchecked(view.buffer_index as usize);
+            let offset = view.offset as usize;
+            data.get_unchecked(offset..offset + len as usize)
+        };
+        T::Native::from_bytes_unchecked(b)
+    }
+
+    /// constructs a new iterator
+    pub fn iter(&self) -> ArrayIter<&Self> {
+        ArrayIter::new(self)
+    }
+
+    /// Returns a zero-copy slice of this array with the indicated offset and 
length.
+    pub fn slice(&self, offset: usize, length: usize) -> Self {
+        Self {
+            data_type: T::DATA_TYPE,
+            views: self.views.slice(offset, length),
+            buffers: self.buffers.clone(),
+            nulls: self.nulls.as_ref().map(|n| n.slice(offset, length)),
+            phantom: Default::default(),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl<T: ByteViewType + ?Sized> Debug for GenericByteViewArray<T> {
+    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter) -> std::fmt::Result {
+        write!(f, "{}ViewArray\n[\n", T::PREFIX)?;
+        print_long_array(self, f, |array, index, f| {
+            std::fmt::Debug::fmt(&array.value(index), f)
+        })?;
+        write!(f, "]")
+    }
+}
+
+impl<T: ByteViewType + ?Sized> Array for GenericByteViewArray<T> {
+    fn as_any(&self) -> &dyn Any {
+        self
+    }
+
+    fn to_data(&self) -> ArrayData {
+        self.clone().into()
+    }
+
+    fn into_data(self) -> ArrayData {
+        self.into()
+    }
+
+    fn data_type(&self) -> &DataType {
+        &self.data_type
+    }
+
+    fn slice(&self, offset: usize, length: usize) -> ArrayRef {
+        Arc::new(self.slice(offset, length))
+    }
+
+    fn len(&self) -> usize {
+        self.views.len()
+    }
+
+    fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
+        self.views.is_empty()
+    }
+
+    fn offset(&self) -> usize {
+        0
+    }
+
+    fn nulls(&self) -> Option<&NullBuffer> {
+        self.nulls.as_ref()
+    }
+
+    fn get_buffer_memory_size(&self) -> usize {
+        let mut sum = self.buffers.iter().map(|b| b.capacity()).sum::<usize>();
+        sum += self.views.inner().capacity();
+        if let Some(x) = &self.nulls {
+            sum += x.buffer().capacity()
+        }
+        sum
+    }
+
+    fn get_array_memory_size(&self) -> usize {
+        std::mem::size_of::<Self>() + self.get_buffer_memory_size()
+    }
+}
+
+impl<'a, T: ByteViewType + ?Sized> ArrayAccessor for &'a 
GenericByteViewArray<T> {
+    type Item = &'a T::Native;
+
+    fn value(&self, index: usize) -> Self::Item {
+        GenericByteViewArray::value(self, index)
+    }
+
+    unsafe fn value_unchecked(&self, index: usize) -> Self::Item {
+        GenericByteViewArray::value_unchecked(self, index)
+    }
+}
+
+impl<'a, T: ByteViewType + ?Sized> IntoIterator for &'a 
GenericByteViewArray<T> {
+    type Item = Option<&'a T::Native>;
+    type IntoIter = ArrayIter<Self>;
+
+    fn into_iter(self) -> Self::IntoIter {
+        ArrayIter::new(self)
+    }
+}
+
+impl<T: ByteViewType + ?Sized> From<ArrayData> for GenericByteViewArray<T> {
+    fn from(value: ArrayData) -> Self {
+        let views = value.buffers()[0].clone();
+        let views = ScalarBuffer::new(views, value.offset(), value.len());
+        let buffers = value.buffers()[1..].to_vec();
+        Self {
+            data_type: T::DATA_TYPE,
+            views,
+            buffers,
+            nulls: value.nulls().cloned(),
+            phantom: Default::default(),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl<T: ByteViewType + ?Sized> From<GenericByteViewArray<T>> for ArrayData {
+    fn from(mut array: GenericByteViewArray<T>) -> Self {
+        let len = array.len();
+        array.buffers.insert(0, array.views.into_inner());
+        let builder = ArrayDataBuilder::new(T::DATA_TYPE)
+            .len(len)
+            .buffers(array.buffers)
+            .nulls(array.nulls);
+
+        unsafe { builder.build_unchecked() }
+    }
+}
+
+impl<Ptr, T: ByteViewType + ?Sized> FromIterator<Option<Ptr>> for 
GenericByteViewArray<T>
+where
+    Ptr: AsRef<T::Native>,
+{
+    fn from_iter<I: IntoIterator<Item = Option<Ptr>>>(iter: I) -> Self {
+        let iter = iter.into_iter();
+        let mut builder = 
GenericByteViewBuilder::<T>::with_capacity(iter.size_hint().0);
+        builder.extend(iter);
+        builder.finish()
+    }
+}
+
+/// A [`GenericByteViewArray`] of `[u8]`
+pub type BinaryViewArray = GenericByteViewArray<BinaryViewType>;
+
+/// A [`GenericByteViewArray`] of `str`
+///
+/// ```
+/// use arrow_array::StringViewArray;
+/// let array = StringViewArray::from_iter_values(vec!["hello", "world", 
"lulu", "large payload over 12 bytes"]);
+/// assert_eq!(array.value(0), "hello");
+/// assert_eq!(array.value(3), "large payload over 12 bytes");
+/// ```
+pub type StringViewArray = GenericByteViewArray<StringViewType>;
+
+impl From<Vec<&str>> for StringViewArray {
+    fn from(v: Vec<&str>) -> Self {
+        Self::from_iter_values(v)
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use crate::builder::StringViewBuilder;
+    use crate::{Array, BinaryViewArray, StringViewArray};
+
+    #[test]
+    fn try_new() {
+        let array = StringViewArray::from_iter_values(vec![
+            "hello",
+            "world",
+            "lulu",
+            "large payload over 12 bytes",
+        ]);
+        assert_eq!(array.value(0), "hello");
+        assert_eq!(array.value(3), "large payload over 12 bytes");
+
+        let array = BinaryViewArray::from_iter_values(vec![
+            b"hello".as_slice(),
+            b"world".as_slice(),
+            b"lulu".as_slice(),
+            b"large payload over 12 bytes".as_slice(),
+        ]);
+        assert_eq!(array.value(0), b"hello");
+        assert_eq!(array.value(3), b"large payload over 12 bytes");
+
+        let array = {
+            let mut builder = StringViewBuilder::new();
+            builder.finish()
+        };
+        assert!(array.is_empty());
+
+        let array = {
+            let mut builder = StringViewBuilder::new();
+            builder.append_value("hello");
+            builder.append_null();
+            builder.append_option(Some("large payload over 12 bytes"));
+            builder.finish()
+        };
+        assert_eq!(array.value(0), "hello");
+        assert!(array.is_null(1));
+        assert_eq!(array.value(2), "large payload over 12 bytes");
+    }
+}

Review Comment:
   Can you also please add negative tests for  `BinaryViewArray::new()` 
validation failures? Specifically when incorrect data is passed to `::new()` 
that it should panic with a validation failure -- so tests of the code in 
`validate_view_impl`:
   * Incorrect buffer counts (
   * Views that point to ranges outside the variable length portion (e.g off 
the end)
   * views that refer to a non existent variadic buffer
   * StringView that has non utf8 data in it
   
   Maybe we could add this as a follow on PR, but it seems important to ensure 
the soundness of this code



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arrow-array/src/record_batch.rs:
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@@ -646,6 +648,30 @@ mod tests {
         check_batch(record_batch, 5)
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn create_string_view_record_batch() {

Review Comment:
   ❤️ 



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arrow/tests/array_transform.rs:
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@@ -1027,6 +1028,44 @@ fn test_extend_nulls_panic() {
     mutable.extend_nulls(2);
 }
 
+#[test]
+fn test_string_view() {
+    let a1 =
+        StringViewArray::from(vec!["foo", "very long string over 12 bytes", 
"bar"]).into_data();
+    let a2 = StringViewArray::from_iter(vec![
+        Some("bar"),
+        None,
+        Some("long string also over 12 bytes"),
+    ])
+    .into_data();
+
+    a1.validate_full().unwrap();
+    a2.validate_full().unwrap();
+
+    let mut mutable = MutableArrayData::new(vec![&a1, &a2], false, 4);
+    mutable.extend(1, 0, 1);
+    mutable.extend(0, 1, 2);
+    mutable.extend(0, 0, 1);
+    mutable.extend(1, 2, 3);
+
+    let array = StringViewArray::from(mutable.freeze());
+    assert_eq!(array.data_buffers().len(), 2);
+    // Should have reused data buffers

Review Comment:
   nice



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arrow/tests/array_equal.rs:
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@@ -307,6 +307,30 @@ fn test_fixed_size_binary_array() {
     test_equal(&a, &b, true);
 }
 
+#[test]
+fn test_string_view_equal() {
+    let a1 = StringViewArray::from(vec!["foo", "very long string over 12 
bytes", "bar"]);
+    let a2 = StringViewArray::from(vec![
+        "a very long string over 12 bytes",
+        "foo",
+        "very long string over 12 bytes",
+        "bar",
+    ]);
+    test_equal(&a1, &a2.slice(1, 3), true);
+
+    let a1 = StringViewArray::from(vec!["foo", "very long string over 12 
bytes", "bar"]);
+    let a2 = StringViewArray::from(vec!["foo", "very long string over 12 
bytes", "bar"]);
+    test_equal(&a1, &a2, true);
+
+    let a1_s = a1.slice(1, 1);
+    let a2_s = a2.slice(1, 1);
+    test_equal(&a1_s, &a2_s, true);
+
+    let a1_s = a1.slice(2, 1);
+    let a2_s = a2.slice(0, 1);
+    test_equal(&a1_s, &a2_s, false);

Review Comment:
   I think the following additional tests are important:
   1. view arrays that differ only in nullability (should not be equal)
   2. Equality / slices with nulls 



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arrow-array/src/builder/generic_bytes_view_builder.rs:
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@@ -0,0 +1,215 @@
+// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+// or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+// distributed with this work for additional information
+// regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+// to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+// "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+// with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+// software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+// "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+// KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+// specific language governing permissions and limitations
+// under the License.
+
+use crate::builder::ArrayBuilder;
+use crate::types::{BinaryViewType, ByteViewType, StringViewType};
+use crate::{ArrayRef, GenericByteViewArray};
+use arrow_buffer::{Buffer, BufferBuilder, NullBufferBuilder, ScalarBuffer};
+use arrow_data::ByteView;
+use std::any::Any;
+use std::marker::PhantomData;
+use std::sync::Arc;
+
+const DEFAULT_BLOCK_SIZE: u32 = 8 * 1024;
+
+/// A builder for [`GenericByteViewArray`]
+///
+/// See [`Self::append_value`] for the allocation strategy
+pub struct GenericByteViewBuilder<T: ByteViewType + ?Sized> {
+    views_builder: BufferBuilder<u128>,
+    null_buffer_builder: NullBufferBuilder,
+    completed: Vec<Buffer>,
+    in_progress: Vec<u8>,
+    block_size: u32,
+    phantom: PhantomData<T>,
+}
+
+impl<T: ByteViewType + ?Sized> GenericByteViewBuilder<T> {
+    /// Creates a new [`GenericByteViewBuilder`].
+    pub fn new() -> Self {
+        Self::with_capacity(1024)
+    }
+
+    /// Creates a new [`GenericByteViewBuilder`] with space for `capacity` 
strings
+    pub fn with_capacity(capacity: usize) -> Self {
+        Self {
+            views_builder: BufferBuilder::new(capacity),
+            null_buffer_builder: NullBufferBuilder::new(capacity),
+            completed: vec![],
+            in_progress: vec![],
+            block_size: DEFAULT_BLOCK_SIZE,
+            phantom: Default::default(),
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Override the minimum size of buffers to allocate for string data
+    pub fn with_block_size(self, block_size: u32) -> Self {
+        Self { block_size, ..self }
+    }
+
+    /// Appends a value into the builder
+    ///
+    /// # Panics
+    ///
+    /// Panics if
+    /// - String buffer count exceeds `u32::MAX`
+    /// - String length exceeds `u32::MAX`
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn append_value(&mut self, value: impl AsRef<T::Native>) {
+        let v: &[u8] = value.as_ref().as_ref();
+        let length: u32 = v.len().try_into().unwrap();
+        if length <= 12 {

Review Comment:
   With a views builder maybe this could look like
   
   ```rust
   self.views_builder.append_inline(v, length)
   ```



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arrow-array/src/array/byte_view_array.rs:
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+// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+// or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+// distributed with this work for additional information
+// regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+// to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+// "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+// with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+// software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+// "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+// KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+// specific language governing permissions and limitations
+// under the License.
+
+use crate::array::print_long_array;
+use crate::builder::GenericByteViewBuilder;
+use crate::iterator::ArrayIter;
+use crate::types::bytes::ByteArrayNativeType;
+use crate::types::{BinaryViewType, ByteViewType, StringViewType};
+use crate::{Array, ArrayAccessor, ArrayRef};
+use arrow_buffer::{Buffer, NullBuffer, ScalarBuffer};
+use arrow_data::{ArrayData, ArrayDataBuilder, ByteView};
+use arrow_schema::{ArrowError, DataType};
+use std::any::Any;
+use std::fmt::Debug;
+use std::marker::PhantomData;
+use std::sync::Arc;
+
+/// An array of variable length bytes view arrays
+pub struct GenericByteViewArray<T: ByteViewType + ?Sized> {
+    data_type: DataType,
+    views: ScalarBuffer<u128>,
+    buffers: Vec<Buffer>,
+    phantom: PhantomData<T>,
+    nulls: Option<NullBuffer>,
+}
+
+impl<T: ByteViewType + ?Sized> Clone for GenericByteViewArray<T> {
+    fn clone(&self) -> Self {
+        Self {
+            data_type: T::DATA_TYPE,
+            views: self.views.clone(),
+            buffers: self.buffers.clone(),
+            nulls: self.nulls.clone(),
+            phantom: Default::default(),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl<T: ByteViewType + ?Sized> GenericByteViewArray<T> {
+    /// Create a new [`GenericByteViewArray`] from the provided parts, 
panicking on failure
+    ///
+    /// # Panics
+    ///
+    /// Panics if [`GenericByteViewArray::try_new`] returns an error
+    pub fn new(views: ScalarBuffer<u128>, buffers: Vec<Buffer>, nulls: 
Option<NullBuffer>) -> Self {
+        Self::try_new(views, buffers, nulls).unwrap()
+    }
+
+    /// Create a new [`GenericByteViewArray`] from the provided parts, 
returning an error on failure
+    ///
+    /// # Errors
+    ///
+    /// * `views.len() != nulls.len()`
+    /// * [ByteViewType::validate] fails
+    pub fn try_new(
+        views: ScalarBuffer<u128>,
+        buffers: Vec<Buffer>,
+        nulls: Option<NullBuffer>,
+    ) -> Result<Self, ArrowError> {
+        T::validate(&views, &buffers)?;
+
+        if let Some(n) = nulls.as_ref() {
+            if n.len() != views.len() {
+                return Err(ArrowError::InvalidArgumentError(format!(
+                    "Incorrect length of null buffer for {}ViewArray, expected 
{} got {}",
+                    T::PREFIX,
+                    views.len(),
+                    n.len(),
+                )));
+            }
+        }
+
+        Ok(Self {
+            data_type: T::DATA_TYPE,
+            views,
+            buffers,
+            nulls,
+            phantom: Default::default(),
+        })
+    }
+
+    /// Create a new [`GenericByteViewArray`] from the provided parts, without 
validation
+    ///
+    /// # Safety
+    ///
+    /// Safe if [`Self::try_new`] would not error
+    pub unsafe fn new_unchecked(
+        views: ScalarBuffer<u128>,
+        buffers: Vec<Buffer>,
+        nulls: Option<NullBuffer>,
+    ) -> Self {
+        Self {
+            data_type: T::DATA_TYPE,
+            phantom: Default::default(),
+            views,
+            buffers,
+            nulls,
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Create a new [`GenericByteViewArray`] of length `len` where all values 
are null
+    pub fn new_null(len: usize) -> Self {
+        Self {
+            data_type: T::DATA_TYPE,
+            views: vec![0; len].into(),
+            buffers: vec![],
+            nulls: Some(NullBuffer::new_null(len)),
+            phantom: Default::default(),
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Creates a [`GenericByteViewArray`] based on an iterator of values 
without nulls
+    pub fn from_iter_values<Ptr, I>(iter: I) -> Self
+    where
+        Ptr: AsRef<T::Native>,
+        I: IntoIterator<Item = Ptr>,
+    {
+        let iter = iter.into_iter();
+        let mut builder = 
GenericByteViewBuilder::<T>::with_capacity(iter.size_hint().0);
+        for v in iter {
+            builder.append_value(v);
+        }
+        builder.finish()
+    }
+
+    /// Deconstruct this array into its constituent parts
+    pub fn into_parts(self) -> (ScalarBuffer<u128>, Vec<Buffer>, 
Option<NullBuffer>) {
+        (self.views, self.buffers, self.nulls)
+    }
+
+    /// Returns the views buffer
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn views(&self) -> &ScalarBuffer<u128> {

Review Comment:
   Not for this PR, but I wonder if we should consider implementing a 
`ByteViewBuffer` type, similarly to the `OffsetBuffer` used for 
`GenericBinaryView` -- 
https://docs.rs/arrow/latest/arrow/buffer/struct.OffsetBuffer.html
   
   I thought that the introduction of `OffsetBuffer` made working with 
StringArray/BinaryArray much easier. 
   
   I can imagine `ByteViewBuffer` encapsulating the 12 byte inline string 
calculation, as well as building such values up as well as hosting 
documentation explaining what types are present.
   
   If this seems like a reasonable idea, I can write up a ticket / maybe whack 
up a PR to show what it might look like
   



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+// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+// or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+// distributed with this work for additional information
+// regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+// to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+// "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+// with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+// software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+// "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+// KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+// specific language governing permissions and limitations
+// under the License.
+
+use crate::builder::ArrayBuilder;
+use crate::types::{BinaryViewType, ByteViewType, StringViewType};
+use crate::{ArrayRef, GenericByteViewArray};
+use arrow_buffer::{Buffer, BufferBuilder, NullBufferBuilder, ScalarBuffer};
+use arrow_data::ByteView;
+use std::any::Any;
+use std::marker::PhantomData;
+use std::sync::Arc;
+
+const DEFAULT_BLOCK_SIZE: u32 = 8 * 1024;
+
+/// A builder for [`GenericByteViewArray`]
+///
+/// See [`Self::append_value`] for the allocation strategy
+pub struct GenericByteViewBuilder<T: ByteViewType + ?Sized> {
+    views_builder: BufferBuilder<u128>,
+    null_buffer_builder: NullBufferBuilder,
+    completed: Vec<Buffer>,
+    in_progress: Vec<u8>,
+    block_size: u32,
+    phantom: PhantomData<T>,
+}
+
+impl<T: ByteViewType + ?Sized> GenericByteViewBuilder<T> {
+    /// Creates a new [`GenericByteViewBuilder`].
+    pub fn new() -> Self {
+        Self::with_capacity(1024)
+    }
+
+    /// Creates a new [`GenericByteViewBuilder`] with space for `capacity` 
strings
+    pub fn with_capacity(capacity: usize) -> Self {
+        Self {
+            views_builder: BufferBuilder::new(capacity),
+            null_buffer_builder: NullBufferBuilder::new(capacity),
+            completed: vec![],
+            in_progress: vec![],
+            block_size: DEFAULT_BLOCK_SIZE,
+            phantom: Default::default(),
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Override the minimum size of buffers to allocate for string data
+    pub fn with_block_size(self, block_size: u32) -> Self {
+        Self { block_size, ..self }
+    }
+
+    /// Appends a value into the builder
+    ///
+    /// # Panics
+    ///
+    /// Panics if
+    /// - String buffer count exceeds `u32::MAX`
+    /// - String length exceeds `u32::MAX`
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn append_value(&mut self, value: impl AsRef<T::Native>) {
+        let v: &[u8] = value.as_ref().as_ref();
+        let length: u32 = v.len().try_into().unwrap();
+        if length <= 12 {
+            let mut view_buffer = [0; 16];
+            view_buffer[0..4].copy_from_slice(&length.to_le_bytes());
+            view_buffer[4..4 + v.len()].copy_from_slice(v);
+            self.views_builder.append(u128::from_le_bytes(view_buffer));
+            self.null_buffer_builder.append_non_null();
+            return;
+        }
+
+        let required_cap = self.in_progress.len() + v.len();
+        if self.in_progress.capacity() < required_cap {

Review Comment:
   I may have missed it, but is there test coverage for this case (when the 
existing binary buffer fills up and we need a new variable length buffer)?



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