westonpace commented on code in PR #41257:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/41257#discussion_r1589739730
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docs/source/format/CanonicalExtensions.rst:
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@@ -251,6 +251,27 @@ Variable shape tensor
Values inside each **data** tensor element are stored in
row-major/C-contiguous
order according to the corresponding **shape**.
+.. _json_extension:
+
+JSON
+====
+
+* Extension name: `arrow.json`.
+
+* The storage type of this extension is ``StringArray`` or
+ or ``LargeStringArray`` or ``StringViewArray``.
+ Only UTF-8 encoded JSON is supported.
Review Comment:
> By this you mean serializing binary data into UTF-8 string and including
it as a String? What would be a downside to allowing that?
I think the argument was that we might want to support `BinaryArray` as a
storage type since a JSON document could be encoded with a non-utf8 encoding
and thus should not be stored in a `StringArray`. However, I agree we probably
don't want to worry about this since the RFC is pretty clear that JSON must be
UTF-8 and users can always make up their own extension type if they need to.
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