zeroshade commented on a change in pull request #11359:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/11359#discussion_r738534771



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File path: go/arrow/array/record.go
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@@ -338,6 +348,53 @@ func (b *RecordBuilder) NewRecord() Record {
        return NewRecord(b.schema, cols, rows)
 }
 
+// UnmarshalJSON for record builder will read in a single object and add the 
values
+// to each field in the recordbuilder, missing fields will get a null and 
unexpected
+// keys will be ignored. If reading in an array of records as a single batch, 
then use
+// a structbuilder and use RecordFromStruct.
+func (b *RecordBuilder) UnmarshalJSON(data []byte) error {
+       dec := json.NewDecoder(bytes.NewReader(data))
+       // should start with a '{'
+       t, err := dec.Token()
+       if err != nil {
+               return err
+       }
+
+       if delim, ok := t.(json.Delim); !ok || delim != '{' {
+               return fmt.Errorf("record should start with '{', not %s", t)
+       }
+
+       keylist := make(map[string]bool)
+       for dec.More() {
+               keyTok, err := dec.Token()
+               if err != nil {
+                       return err
+               }
+
+               key := keyTok.(string)

Review comment:
       if anything fails this cast, we want it to break because we can't decode 
it at that point.




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