lidavidm commented on a change in pull request #12248:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/12248#discussion_r801601934



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File path: cpp/src/arrow/compute/kernels/scalar_cast_nested.cc
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@@ -150,6 +150,80 @@ void AddListCast(CastFunction* func) {
   DCHECK_OK(func->AddKernel(SrcType::type_id, std::move(kernel)));
 }
 
+struct CastStruct {
+  static Status Exec(KernelContext* ctx, const ExecBatch& batch, Datum* out) {
+    const CastOptions& options = CastState::Get(ctx);
+    const auto in_field_count =
+        checked_cast<const StructType&>(*batch[0].type()).num_fields();
+    const auto out_field_count =
+        checked_cast<const StructType&>(*out->type()).num_fields();
+
+    if (in_field_count != out_field_count) {
+      return Status::TypeError("struct field sizes do not match: ",
+                               batch[0].type()->ToString(), " ", 
out->type()->ToString());
+    }
+
+    for (int64_t i = 0; i < in_field_count; ++i) {
+      const auto in_field_name =
+          checked_cast<const StructType&>(*batch[0].type()).field(i)->name();
+      const auto out_field_name =
+          checked_cast<const StructType&>(*out->type()).field(i)->name();

Review comment:
       Could you expand on what you mean? Looking at the test below, why would 
casting a non-null value suddenly result in a null value? Changing nullability 
is only about whether there _can_ be nulls, not whether there actually _are_ 
nulls.




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