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Francois Saint-Jacques reassigned ARROW-5588:
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Assignee: Benjamin Kietzman
> [C++] Better support for building UnionArrays
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> Key: ARROW-5588
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-5588
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: C++
> Reporter: Benjamin Kietzman
> Assignee: Benjamin Kietzman
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: pull-request-available
> Fix For: 1.0.0
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> Time Spent: 3h 50m
> Remaining Estimate: 0h
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> UnionBuilders (for both sparse and dense mode unions) are not currently
> supported by MakeBuilder or ArrayFromJSON. This increases friction when
> working with and testing against union arrays, and support should be added to
> both. For ArrayFromJSON each entry must be specified with a (type code,
> value) pair:
> {code}
> ArrayFromJSON(union_({field("lint", list(int32())), field("str", utf8())}),
> R"([
> [0, null],
> [1, "hello"],
> [0, [1, 2]],
> [1, "world"]
> ])");
> {code}
> DenseUnionBuilder currently requires the user to explicitly input offsets,
> but if it were modified to hold pointers to child builders (as ListBuilder,
> for example) then those offsets could be derived from the lengths of child
> builders (which is much more user friendly).
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