Jefffrey commented on code in PR #9268:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/9268#discussion_r2734736277


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arrow-array/src/array/list_array.rs:
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@@ -418,18 +418,43 @@ impl<OffsetSize: OffsetSizeTrait> 
GenericListArray<OffsetSize> {
         T: ArrowPrimitiveType,
         P: IntoIterator<Item = Option<<T as ArrowPrimitiveType>::Native>>,
         I: IntoIterator<Item = Option<P>>,
+    {
+        Self::from_nested_iter::<PrimitiveBuilder<T>, T::Native, P, I>(iter)
+    }
+
+    /// Creates a [`GenericListArray`] from a nested iterator of values.
+    /// This method works for any values type that has a corresponding builder 
that implements the
+    /// `Extend` trait. That includes all numeric types, booleans, binary and 
string types and also
+    /// dictionary encoded binary and strings.
+    ///
+    /// # Example
+    /// ```
+    /// # use arrow_array::ListArray;
+    /// # use arrow_array::types::Int32Type;
+    /// # use arrow_array::builder::StringDictionaryBuilder;
+    /// let data = vec![
+    ///    Some(vec![Some("foo"), Some("bar"), Some("baz")]),
+    ///    None,
+    ///    Some(vec![Some("bar"), None, Some("foo")]),
+    ///    Some(vec![]),
+    /// ];
+    /// let list_array = 
ListArray::from_nested_iter::<StringDictionaryBuilder<Int32Type>, _, _, 
_>(data);
+    /// println!("{:?}", list_array);
+    /// ```
+    pub fn from_nested_iter<B, T, P, I>(iter: I) -> Self

Review Comment:
   I think we can't have `primitive` in the name since this new API accepts 
strings too 🤔 



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