[ARROW-10219] [C++] csv::TableReader column names, Read() arguments

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: C++
• Labels: beginner
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/26221
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Neal Richardson
• Created: 07/Oct/20 17:33
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:11

Description

Some feature requests:

• csv::TableReader column_names method, and/or schema method. This will (in most cases) require IO to get these from the file, but that's fine. There are use cases (we've seen in R) where it would help to be able to get the names from the file (e.g. when you specify column types, it's a map of column name to type, so you can't currently specify types without also specifying names)
• Add Read(std::vector<int>) like how feather (and parquet?) have so that you don't have to parse and allocate columns you don't want.

cc apitrou romainfrancois