tustvold opened a new issue, #1979:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/1979
**Is your feature request related to a problem or challenge? Please describe
what you are trying to do.**
The array implementations are just strongly typed wrappers around an
`ArrayData`. It therefore makes sense that the conversion can be performed
cheaply. Currently the only way to do this uses `Array::data` and
`ArrayData::clone`, the latter of which is not especially cheap.
**Describe the solution you'd like**
I would like all `T: Array` to `impl Into<ArrayData>`. Additionally these
implementations should provide an `into_data` member function to aid in type
inference.
```
fn into_data(self) -> ArrayData {
self.into()
}
```
**Describe alternatives you've considered**
We could not do this, but it is fairly common to see `array.data().clone()`
which just seems unnecessary
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