csharp/src/Apache.Arrow/Arrays/ArrowArrayConcatenator.cs

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using Apache.Arrow.Memory;
using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace Apache.Arrow
{
    public static class ArrowArrayConcatenator
    {
        public static IArrowArray Concatenate(IReadOnlyList<IArrowArray> arrowArrayList , MemoryAllocator allocator = default)
        {
            if(arrowArrayList == null || arrowArrayList.Count == 0)
            {
                return null;
            }

            if (arrowArrayList.Count == 1)
            {
                return arrowArrayList[0];
            }

            var arrayDataList = new List<ArrayData>(arrowArrayList.Count);

            foreach(IArrowArray array in arrowArrayList)
            {
                arrayDataList.Add(array.Data);
            }

            return ArrowArrayFactory.BuildArray(ArrayDataConcatenator.Concatenate(arrayDataList, allocator));
        }
    }
}