rdettai commented on issue #218: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/218#issuecomment-1055577296
@nevi-me: blast from the past! 😄 - We support field metadata since https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/9025 - What did you have in mind with "supporting the Arrow format" ? I don't really see what else we could do to materialize extension types within arrow-rs: - adding a new variant to the `DataType` enum would not be practical because downstream apps that want to handle the extension type as a built in logical type would need to explicitly unwrap it (or maybe that is precisely what we want!) - adding specific methods to `Field` such as `is_extention_type()` and/or `get_extension_type()`. Not a huge added value compared to just getting `ARROW:extension:name` out of the metadata. -- 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
