[ARROW-13736] [C++] Reconcile PrettyPrint and StringFormatter

• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 6.0.0
• Component/s: C++
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/29369
• Assignee: Antoine Pitrou
• Reporter: Antoine Pitrou
• Created: 24/Aug/21 17:17
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:35
• Resolved: 06/Oct/21 16:29

Description

We have a StringFormatter for (presumably performant) formatting of primitive values, but PrettyPrint uses its own internal routines. We should probably base PrettyPrint on StringFormatter, making sure that all corner cases are correctly handled by the latter.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #11339