alamb commented on code in PR #8093:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8093#discussion_r2286025073


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parquet-variant-compute/src/variant_array.rs:
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@@ -251,6 +255,13 @@ pub enum ShreddingState {
         value: BinaryViewArray,
         typed_value: ArrayRef,
     },
+    /// All values are null, only metadata is present.
+    ///
+    /// This state occurs when neither `value` nor `typed_value` fields exist 
in the schema.

Review Comment:
   I think this is a reasonable approach for now. If we find a reason to 
restrict AllNull to only sub fields at some later point, then we can add 
additional code / restrictions



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