No reason in particular: please go ahead! tips: anything that is to be deallocated when exporting must go to "private data" and deallocated by the extern "C" release bit, as we do in the DataType string. Think of that function as the "Drop" equivalent for ffi.
Best, Jorge On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 4:24 AM Marc Prud'hommeaux <mprud...@apache.org> wrote: > When I export to the C data interface structs with array.to_raw(), I'm > seeing that FFI_ArrowSchema.name is always null. And looking at > ArrowArray::try_new, it appears that FFI_ArrowSchema is only ever created > with a format argument; name and metadata are never set to anything. > > Is there any specific reason why FFI_ArrowSchema.name is left unset? If > not, I'd like to take a shot at implementing it. Any implementation tips > would be welcome. > > –Marc > >
