albertlockett commented on code in PR #7611:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/7611#discussion_r2144971950
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arrow-array/src/builder/generic_bytes_dictionary_builder.rs:
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@@ -152,6 +155,65 @@ where
values_builder,
})
}
+
+ /// Creates a new `GenericByteDictionaryBuilder` from the existing builder
with the same
+ /// keys and values, but with a new data type for the keys.
+ ///
+ /// # example
+ /// ```
+ /// # use arrow_array::builder::StringDictionaryBuilder;
+ /// # use arrow_array::types::{UInt8Type, UInt16Type};
+ /// # use arrow_array::UInt16Array;;
+ ///
+ /// let mut u8_keyed_builder = StringDictionaryBuilder::<UInt8Type>::new();
+ /// u8_keyed_builder.append("def").unwrap();
+ /// u8_keyed_builder.append_null();
+ /// u8_keyed_builder.append("abc").unwrap();
+ ///
+ /// // for some reason, we decide we need to upgrade the key type
Review Comment:
reworked the example to make this more clear
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