ritchie46 commented on a change in pull request #9778:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/9778#discussion_r603432652
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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:
@jorgecarleitao the field is now built from the schema and we build the
schema depending on the field!
This solved all the earlier issues. :)
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