sdf-jkl commented on code in PR #8201:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8201#discussion_r2294712496


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parquet-variant-compute/src/cast_to_variant.rs:
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@@ -535,6 +535,88 @@ pub fn cast_to_variant(input: &dyn Array) -> 
Result<VariantArray, ArrowError> {
                 builder.append_variant(value);
             }
         }
+        DataType::List(_) => {
+            let list_array = input.as_list::<i32>();
+            let values = list_array.values();
+            let offsets = list_array.offsets();
+
+            let first_offset = offsets.first().expect("There should be an 
offset");
+            let length = offsets.last().expect("There should be an offset") - 
first_offset;
+            let sliced_values = values.slice(*first_offset as usize, length as 
usize);
+
+            let values_variant_array = 
cast_to_variant(sliced_values.as_ref())?;
+            let new_offsets = OffsetBuffer::new(ScalarBuffer::from_iter(
+                offsets.iter().map(|o| o - first_offset),
+            ));

Review Comment:
   I implemented the optimization you mentioned above like this.
   I also added a test for sliced list arrays.
   



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