From cea597314e92173c05781f762b8b6f0123ac7839 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steven Phillips <steven@dremio.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 15:15:28 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] ARROW-1347: [JAVA] return consistent child field name for
 List vectors

---
 .../main/java/org/apache/arrow/vector/complex/ListVector.java | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/java/vector/src/main/java/org/apache/arrow/vector/complex/ListVector.java b/java/vector/src/main/java/org/apache/arrow/vector/complex/ListVector.java
index 7b6b97a8ed9..ecb19efa57a 100644
--- a/java/vector/src/main/java/org/apache/arrow/vector/complex/ListVector.java
+++ b/java/vector/src/main/java/org/apache/arrow/vector/complex/ListVector.java
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
 import org.apache.arrow.vector.schema.ArrowFieldNode;
 import org.apache.arrow.vector.types.Types.MinorType;
 import org.apache.arrow.vector.types.pojo.ArrowType;
+import org.apache.arrow.vector.types.pojo.ArrowType.Null;
 import org.apache.arrow.vector.types.pojo.DictionaryEncoding;
 import org.apache.arrow.vector.types.pojo.Field;
 import org.apache.arrow.vector.types.pojo.FieldType;
@@ -297,6 +298,9 @@ public int getBufferSize() {
 
   @Override
   public Field getField() {
+    if (getDataVector() == ZeroVector.INSTANCE) {
+      return new Field(name, fieldType, ImmutableList.of(new Field(DATA_VECTOR_NAME, FieldType.nullable(Null.INSTANCE), null)));
+    }
     return new Field(name, fieldType, ImmutableList.of(getDataVector().getField()));
   }