NickCrews commented on code in PR #43782: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/43782#discussion_r1943764878
########## cpp/src/arrow/compute/kernels/scalar_cast_nested.cc: ########## @@ -404,14 +400,20 @@ struct CastStruct { int out_field_index = 0; for (int field_index : fields_to_select) { - const auto& target_type = out->type()->field(out_field_index++)->type(); + const auto& target_field = out->type()->field(out_field_index++); + const auto& target_type = target_field->type(); if (field_index == kFillNullSentinel) { ARROW_ASSIGN_OR_RAISE(auto nulls, MakeArrayOfNull(target_type->GetSharedPtr(), batch.length)); out_array->child_data.push_back(nulls->data()); } else { const auto& values = (in_array.child_data[field_index].ToArrayData()->Slice( in_array.offset, in_array.length)); + if (!target_field->nullable() && values->null_count > 0) { Review Comment: OK, I adjusted to `values->GetNullCount() > 0`, I think we all the issues brought up here are resolved. re-open if I missed something. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: github-unsubscr...@arrow.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org