mapleFU opened a new issue, #43733: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/43733
### Describe the enhancement requested I'm current learning the code of `compute::RowEncoder`. I found that in `FixedWidthKeyEncoder`, Scalar detects `is_valid`: ```c++ Status FixedWidthKeyEncoder::Encode(const ExecValue& data, int64_t batch_length, uint8_t** encoded_bytes) { if (data.is_array()) { // ... } else { const auto& scalar = data.scalar_as<arrow::internal::PrimitiveScalarBase>(); if (scalar.is_valid) { // <-- is valid is checked here.. const std::string_view data = scalar.view(); DCHECK_EQ(data.size(), static_cast<size_t>(byte_width_)); for (int64_t i = 0; i < batch_length; i++) { auto& encoded_ptr = *encoded_bytes++; *encoded_ptr++ = kValidByte; memcpy(encoded_ptr, data.data(), data.size()); encoded_ptr += byte_width_; } } else { for (int64_t i = 0; i < batch_length; i++) { auto& encoded_ptr = *encoded_bytes++; *encoded_ptr++ = kNullByte; memset(encoded_ptr, 0, byte_width_); encoded_ptr += byte_width_; } } } return Status::OK(); } ``` However, in BooleanKeyEncoder, this is not handled: ```c++ Status BooleanKeyEncoder::Encode(const ExecValue& data, int64_t batch_length, uint8_t** encoded_bytes) { if (data.is_array()) { // .. } else { const auto& scalar = data.scalar_as<BooleanScalar>(); bool value = scalar.is_valid && scalar.value; <-- boolean is handled in this way for (int64_t i = 0; i < batch_length; i++) { auto& encoded_ptr = *encoded_bytes++; *encoded_ptr++ = kValidByte; *encoded_ptr++ = value; } } return Status::OK(); } ``` Is this expected? ### Component(s) C++ -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@arrow.apache.org.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org