tustvold commented on code in PR #5922:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/5922#discussion_r1650033053
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arrow-array/src/array/byte_view_array.rs:
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@@ -429,6 +514,40 @@ impl<T: ByteViewType + ?Sized> From<ArrayData> for
GenericByteViewArray<T> {
}
}
+impl<FROM, V> From<&GenericByteArray<FROM>> for GenericByteViewArray<V>
+where
+ FROM: ByteArrayType,
+ FROM::Offset: OffsetSizeTrait + ToPrimitive,
+ V: ByteViewType,
+ FROM::Native: PartialEq<V::Native>, // this prevent users to convert
between byte and string types.
+{
+ fn from(value: &GenericByteArray<FROM>) -> Self {
+ let byte_array = value;
+ let len = byte_array.len();
+ let str_values_buf = byte_array.values().clone();
+ let offsets = byte_array.offsets();
+
+ let mut views_builder =
GenericByteViewBuilder::<V>::with_capacity(len);
Review Comment:
A more efficient mechanism would be to inspect the offsets and if the max
offset is `< u32::MAX` we can avoid copying the string data and just reuse the
buffer
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