From 2a136618ec95ffcb690f848bb711a7ef01a19436 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Pope <81593196+popematt@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 7 May 2024 15:43:00 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Remove unnecessary conversion steps in
 PartiQLValueIonReaderBuilder (#1456)

---
 .../kotlin/org/partiql/value/io/PartiQLValueIonReader.kt     | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/partiql-types/src/main/kotlin/org/partiql/value/io/PartiQLValueIonReader.kt b/partiql-types/src/main/kotlin/org/partiql/value/io/PartiQLValueIonReader.kt
index 732738ffec..6f42b1e2bb 100644
--- a/partiql-types/src/main/kotlin/org/partiql/value/io/PartiQLValueIonReader.kt
+++ b/partiql-types/src/main/kotlin/org/partiql/value/io/PartiQLValueIonReader.kt
@@ -3,10 +3,8 @@ package org.partiql.value.io
 import com.amazon.ion.IonReader
 import com.amazon.ion.IonType
 import com.amazon.ion.system.IonReaderBuilder
-import com.amazon.ion.system.IonSystemBuilder
 import com.amazon.ion.system.IonTextWriterBuilder
 import com.amazon.ionelement.api.IonElement
-import com.amazon.ionelement.api.toIonValue
 import org.partiql.value.DecimalValue
 import org.partiql.value.IntValue
 import org.partiql.value.PartiQLValue
@@ -626,9 +624,8 @@ public class PartiQLValueIonReaderBuilder private constructor(
 
     public fun build(ionElement: IonElement): PartiQLValueReader {
         val out = ByteArrayOutputStream()
-        val reader = IonReaderBuilder.standard().build(ionElement.toIonValue(IonSystemBuilder.standard().build()))
         val writer = IonTextWriterBuilder.standard().build(out)
-        writer.writeValues(reader)
+        ionElement.writeTo(writer)
         val input = ByteArrayInputStream(out.toByteArray())
         return build(input)
     }