ritchie46 commented on a change in pull request #9778:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/9778#discussion_r607008788



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File path: rust/arrow/src/array/ffi.rs
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@@ -55,11 +64,45 @@ impl TryFrom<ArrayData> for ffi::ArrowArray {
     type Error = ArrowError;
 
     fn try_from(value: ArrayData) -> Result<Self> {
+        // If parent is nullable, then children also must be nullable
+        // so we pass this nullable to the creation of hte child data
+        let nullable = match value.data_type() {
+            DataType::List(field) => field.is_nullable(),
+            DataType::LargeList(field) => field.is_nullable(),
+            _ => false,
+        };
+
         let len = value.len();
         let offset = value.offset() as usize;
         let null_count = value.null_count();
         let buffers = value.buffers().to_vec();
         let null_buffer = value.null_buffer().cloned();
+        let child_data = value
+            .child_data()
+            .iter()
+            .map(|arr| {
+                let len = arr.len();

Review comment:
       This is because I otherwise cannot pass `nullable: bool` information 
from the parent. If should split this up in a function separate from `try_from` 
to make this more explicit.




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