Agreed, though keep in mind that rather than "some form of reinterpretation at ArrayData level", you can use the Array::View function, so it would look something like
auto ty = date64(); auto arr = *rag.Int64(...)->View(ty); On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 3:47 AM Antoine Pitrou <anto...@python.org> wrote: > > > Hi Ying, > > Yes, this approach sounds reasonable. It would be useful at some point > to add random date/timestamp generation to RandomArrayGenerator, though. > > Regards > > Antoine. > > > Le 04/03/2021 à 04:36, Ying Zhou a écrit : > > Hi, > > > > I’d like to generate random Date64 & Timestamp arrays with artificial max > > and mins. RandomArrayGenerator::ArrayOf in arrow/testing/random.h does not > > help. Currently the approach I’d like to take is using > > RandomArrayGenerator::Int64 to generate a random int64 array and then > > convert it to a date64/timestamp array through some form of > > reinterpretation at ArrayData level. Does that work? If so is it the best > > approach? Thanks! > > > > Ying > >
