alamb opened a new issue, #8088: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8088
**Is your feature request related to a problem or challenge? Please describe what you are trying to do.** - part of https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/6736 We introduced ShreddingState in - https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8021 And now we need to expand it to handle the null, null case **Describe the solution you'd like** Basically, add `ShreddingState::AllNull` and then implement the relevant APIs in variant_get and OutputBuilder, with tests For a future `FullyShreddedAllNull` variant (neither `value` nor `typed_value` present), would we still need to store the `metadata` even tho it's never actually used? 🤔 _Originally posted by @scovich in https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8021#discussion_r2257329656_ -- 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.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org