jorgecarleitao commented on a change in pull request #9778:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/9778#discussion_r603331386
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File path: rust/arrow/src/ffi.rs
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@@ -193,6 +206,20 @@ fn to_datatype(format: &str) -> Result<DataType> {
"ttm" => DataType::Time32(TimeUnit::Millisecond),
"ttu" => DataType::Time64(TimeUnit::Microsecond),
"ttn" => DataType::Time64(TimeUnit::Nanosecond),
+
+ // Note: The datatype null will only be created when called from
ArrowArray::buffer_len
+ // at that point the child data is not yet known, but it is also not
required to determine
+ // the buffer length of the list arrays.
+ "+l" => DataType::List(Box::new(Field::new(
+ "item",
+ child_type.unwrap_or(DataType::Null),
+ true,
+ ))),
+ "+L" => DataType::LargeList(Box::new(Field::new(
+ "item",
+ child_type.unwrap_or(DataType::Null),
+ true,
+ ))),
Review comment:
@ritchie46 IMO the issue may be here: we need to re-build the entire
field (name and nullability) from the schema, not just the datatype. cc @pitrou
.
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