[ARROW-16556] [Go] Add Layout method to DataTypes

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 9.0.0
• Component/s: Go
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/31916
• Assignee: Matthew Topol
• Reporter: Matthew Topol
• Created: 12/May/22 18:35
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 11:44
• Resolved: 02/Jun/22 01:40

Description

Add Layout method to DataType interface to make it easy to confirm the physical layout of a datatype such as the expected number of buffers, types etc. Similar to the C++ layout methods.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #13136