ARROW-13645 [Java]: Allow NullVectors to have distinct field names #10949
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As discussed in the ML (https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r19aad8a34f63334d3fcd627106f69be13f689740b83930a4eecc17b3%40%3Cdev.arrow.apache.org%3E), the current implementation use hard-coded field names. This may cause some problems, for example, when reconstruct a usable schema from a list of FieldVectors.
So we resolve this problem by allowing NullVectors to have distinct field names.
This also makes the
NullVector
consistent with other types of vectors.