Hi AI, I understand your concern. It makes sense to me. I am not aware of any special reason for this. So if there are no objections, I think it would be reasonable to change this to make the NullVector consistent with other vectors.
Best, Liya Fan On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 8:26 PM Al Taylor <al.taylor1...@googlemail.com.invalid> wrote: > Hi, > > I recently encountered the fact that the .getField() method of NullVector > returns a Field with a hardcoded name. > https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/apache-arrow-5.0.0/java/vector/src/main/java/org/apache/arrow/vector/NullVector.java#L66 > > This is currently hardcoded to > > public static final String DATA_VECTOR_NAME = "$data$"; > > Is this intentional? > This means that one wouldn't be able reconstruct a usable schema from a > list of FieldVectors, for example. > > Thanks, > > Al >
