[GitHub] [arrow] alamb commented on a change in pull request #9212: ARROW-11265: [Rust] Made bool not ArrowNativeType

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alamb commented on a change in pull request #9212:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/9212#discussion_r559493254



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File path: rust/arrow/src/datatypes.rs
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@@ -199,11 +199,18 @@ pub struct Field {
     metadata: Option<BTreeMap<String, String>>,
 }
 
-pub trait ArrowNativeType:
-    fmt::Debug + Send + Sync + Copy + PartialOrd + FromStr + Default + 'static
-{
+/// Trait declaring any type that is serializable to JSON. This includes all primitive types (bool, i32, etc.).
+pub trait JsonSerializable: 'static {
     fn into_json_value(self) -> Option<Value>;
+}
 
+/// Trait expressing a Rust type that has the same in-memory representation
+/// as Arrow. This includes `i16`, `f32`, but excludes `bool` (which in arrow is represented in bits).
+/// In little endian machines, types that implement [`ArrowNativeType`] can be memcopied to arrow buffers
+/// as is.
+pub trait ArrowNativeType:
+    fmt::Debug + Send + Sync + Copy + PartialOrd + FromStr + Default + JsonSerializable

Review comment:
       This is a nice approach (breaking out the `JsonSerializable` part) 👍 




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