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ASF GitHub Bot updated ARROW-17480:
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Labels: Java pull-request-available (was: Java)
> [Java] add setNull() to FieldVector interface
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> Key: ARROW-17480
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-17480
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Java
> Affects Versions: 9.0.0
> Reporter: Larry White
> Assignee: Larry White
> Priority: Major
> Labels: Java, pull-request-available
> Time Spent: 10m
> Remaining Estimate: 0h
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> Only three FieldVector types do not implement setNull(): UnionVector,
> DenseUnionVector and NullVector, preventing it from being addable to the
> ValueVector interface and thus requiring a cast when used.
> For all three vector types it could be added as a no-op. For NullVector, all
> values are already null. For the other two, null values are not supported at
> the top level, but only in the individual child vectors. A no-op
> implementation is not only consistent with the existing writeNull()
> operations in the Union and DenseUnion Writer classes, but it is consistent
> with isNull(), which always returns false.
> An implementation is also needed in the abstract ExtensionTypeVector, which
> can delegate to the underlying vector object.
> See also a similar issue opened for FieldWriter (ARROW-2538), which may be
> closable given the current code base.
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