csharp/src/Apache.Arrow/Column.cs

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

namespace Apache.Arrow
{
    /// <summary>
    /// A Column data structure that logically represents a column in a dataset
    /// </summary>
    public class Column
    {
        public Field Field { get;  }
        private readonly ChunkedArray _columnArrays;
        public ChunkedArray Data => _columnArrays;

        public Column(Field field, IList<Array> arrays)
        {
            _columnArrays = new ChunkedArray(arrays);
            Field = field;
            if (!ValidateArrayDataTypes())
            {
                throw new ArgumentException($"{Field.DataType} must match {_columnArrays.DataType}");
            }
        }

        private Column(Field field, ChunkedArray arrays)
        {
            Field = field;
            _columnArrays = arrays;
        }

        public long Length => _columnArrays.Length;
        public long NullCount => _columnArrays.NullCount;
        public string Name => Field.Name;
        public IArrowType Type => Field.DataType;

        public Column Slice(int offset, int length)
        {
            return new Column(Field, _columnArrays.Slice(offset, length));
        }

        public Column Slice(int offset)
        {
            return new Column(Field, _columnArrays.Slice(offset));
        }

        private bool ValidateArrayDataTypes()
        {
            for (int i = 0; i < _columnArrays.ArrayCount; i++)
            {
                if (_columnArrays.Array(i).Data.DataType != Field.DataType)
                {
                    return false;
                }
            }
            return true;
        }
    }
}