[ARROW-15974] [C++] Migrate flight/types.h header definitions to use Result<>

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 8.0.0
• Component/s: C++, FlightRPC
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/12669
• Assignee: Tobias Zagorni
• Reporter: Tobias Zagorni
• Created: 18/Mar/22 17:26
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 11:41
• Resolved: 29/Mar/22 12:27

Description

This is part of ongoing work to migrate the Flight API to use `Result`

Backwards compatibility should work (and is still used by other Arrow code at this point) for all uses besides ones that use override a virtual method. If you know a sane way to support these, let me know.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #12669