[ARROW-1492] [C++] Type casting function kernel suite

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.12.0
• Component/s: C++
• Labels: Analytics
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/17511
• Assignee: Wes McKinney
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 08/Sep/17 02:32
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:15
• Resolved: 10/Nov/18 21:38

Description

Tracking issue to collect related casting issues

Issue Links

• contains: ARROW-1489 [C++] Add casting option to set unsafe casts to null rather than some garbage value
• contains: ARROW-229 [C++] Implement safe casts for primitive types
• contains: ARROW-1481 [C++] Expose type casts as generic callable object that can write into pre-allocated memory
• contains: ARROW-1482 [C++] Implement casts between date32 and date64
• contains: ARROW-1483 [C++] Implement casts between time32 and time64
• contains: ARROW-1484 [C++] Implement (safe and unsafe) casts between timestamps and times of different units
• contains: ARROW-1487 [C++] Implement casts from List<A> to List<B>, where a cast function is defined from any A to B
• contains: ARROW-1491 [C++] Add casting implementations from strings to numbers or boolean
• incorporates: ARROW-609 [C++] Function for casting from days since UNIX epoch to int64 date
• incorporates: ARROW-1156 [Python] pyarrow.Array.from_pandas should take a type parameter
• incorporates: ARROW-1513 C++: Add cast from Dictionary to plain arrays