[GitHub] [arrow] yordan-pavlov commented on a change in pull request #9329: [Rust] [Experiment] Replace `Arc` by `ArrayData` in all arrays

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yordan-pavlov commented on a change in pull request #9329:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/9329#discussion_r564891587



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File path: rust/arrow/src/array/array.rs
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@@ -56,11 +55,13 @@ pub trait Array: fmt::Debug + Send + Sync + JsonEqual {
     /// ```
     fn as_any(&self) -> &Any;
 
-    /// Returns a reference-counted pointer to the underlying data of this array.
-    fn data(&self) -> ArrayDataRef;
+    /// Returns a reference to the underlying data of this array.
+    fn data(&self) -> &ArrayData;

Review comment:
       if both `data()` and `data_ref()` return `&ArrayData` may be just `data_ref()` is enough and `data()` should be removed; or possibly change `data()` to return `ArrayData`




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