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+// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+// contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 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.
+
+using Apache.Arrow.Types;
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+
+namespace Apache.Arrow
+{
+ public partial class Field
+ {
+ public class Builder
+ {
+ private Dictionary<string, string> _metadata;
+ private string _name;
+ private IArrowType _type;
+ private bool _nullable;
+
+ public Builder()
+ {
+ _name = string.Empty;
+ _type = NullType.Default;
+ _nullable = true;
+ }
+
+ public Builder Name(string value)
+ {
+ if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(value))
+ {
+ throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(value));
+ }
+
+ _name = value;
+ return this;
+ }
+
+ public Builder DataType(IArrowType type)
+ {
+ _type = type ?? NullType.Default;
+ return this;
+ }
+
+ public Builder Nullable(bool value)
+ {
+ _nullable = value;
+ return this;
+ }
+
+ public Builder Metadata(string key, string value)
+ {
+ if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(key))
+ {
+ throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(key));
+ }
+
+ _metadata ??= new Dictionary<string, string>();
+
+ _metadata[key] = value;
+ return this;
+ }
+
+ public Builder Metadata(IEnumerable<KeyValuePair<string, string>> dictionary)
+ {
+ if (dictionary == null)
+ {
+ throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(dictionary));
+ }
+ foreach (KeyValuePair<string, string> entry in dictionary)
+ {
+ Metadata(entry.Key, entry.Value);
+ }
+ return this;
+ }
+
+ public Field Build()
+ {
+ return new Field(_name, _type, _nullable, _metadata);
+ }
+ }
+ }
+}