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+// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
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+// distributed with this work for additional information
+// regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+// to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+// "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+// with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+package array_test
+
+import (
+ "testing"
+
+ "github.com/apache/arrow/go/v6/arrow"
+ "github.com/apache/arrow/go/v6/arrow/array"
+ "github.com/apache/arrow/go/v6/arrow/memory"
+)
+
+func TestNullArray(t *testing.T) {
+ pool := memory.NewCheckedAllocator(memory.NewGoAllocator())
+ defer pool.AssertSize(t, 0)
+
+ b := array.NewNullBuilder(pool)
+ defer b.Release()
+
+ b.AppendNull()
+ b.AppendNull()
+
+ arr1 := b.NewArray().(*array.Null)
+ defer arr1.Release()
+
+ if got, want := arr1.Len(), 2; got != want {
+ t.Fatalf("invalid null array length: got=%d, want=%d", got, want)
+ }
+
+ if got, want := arr1.NullN(), 2; got != want {
+ t.Fatalf("invalid number of nulls: got=%d, want=%d", got, want)
+ }
+
+ if got, want := arr1.DataType(), arrow.Null; got != want {
+ t.Fatalf("invalid null data type: got=%v, want=%v", got, want)
+ }
+
+ arr1.Retain()
+ arr1.Release()
+
+ if arr1.Data() == nil {
+ t.Fatalf("invalid null data")
+ }
+
+ arr2 := b.NewNullArray()
+ defer arr2.Release()
+
+ if got, want := arr2.Len(), 0; got != want {
+ t.Fatalf("invalid null array length: got=%d, want=%d", got, want)
+ }
+
+ arr3 := array.NewNull(10)
+ defer arr3.Release()
+
+ if got, want := arr3.Len(), 10; got != want {
+ t.Fatalf("invalid null array length: got=%d, want=%d", got, want)
+ }
+
+ if got, want := arr3.NullN(), 10; got != want {
+ t.Fatalf("invalid number of nulls: got=%d, want=%d", got, want)
+ }
+
+}