[ARROW-1008] [C++] Define abstract interface for stream iteration

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.4.0
• Component/s: C++
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/16603
• Assignee: Wes McKinney
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 11/May/17 15:56
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:12
• Resolved: 14/May/17 12:55

Description

The purpose of this JIRA is to decouple the physical structure of the stream from the StreamReader API. So if we wanted to put the stream components into different physical files on disk, this would permit the construction of a different kind of StreamIterator that knows how to read the respective stream components from files