alamb commented on code in PR #7419: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/7419#discussion_r2073617536
########## arrow-row/src/lib.rs: ########## @@ -1330,9 +1335,18 @@ fn encode_column( .skip(1) .enumerate() .for_each(|(idx, offset)| { - let (row, sentinel) = match array.is_valid(idx) { - true => (rows.row(idx), 0x01), - false => (*null, null_sentinel), + let (row, sentinel) = if array.is_valid(idx) { + let row = if rows.num_rows() == 0 { Review Comment: I am worried about adding a new test on each row of the conversion as that may slow down things significantly I think we could check if the input array's size was greater than zero and just ignore the offsets if not ```rust let array = as_struct_array(column); if array.len() == 0 { return OK(()) } ``` Or something ########## arrow-row/src/lib.rs: ########## @@ -2539,4 +2553,17 @@ mod tests { let rows = converter.convert_columns(&[Arc::new(a) as _]).unwrap(); assert_eq!(rows.row(0).cmp(&rows.row(1)), Ordering::Less); } + + #[test] + fn test_empty_struct() { + let s = Arc::new(StructArray::new_empty_fields(5, None)) as ArrayRef; + + let sort_fields = vec![SortField::new(s.data_type().clone())]; + let converter = RowConverter::new(sort_fields).unwrap(); + let r = converter.convert_columns(&[Arc::clone(&s)]).unwrap(); + + let back = converter.convert_rows(&r).unwrap(); + assert_eq!(back.len(), 1); + assert_eq!(&back[0], &s); + } Review Comment: Can you also verify we have tests covering empty arrays of other offset based types (such as ListArray, StringArray, etc) ? -- 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