[ARROW-17289] [C++] Add type category membership checks

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 10.0.0
• Component/s: C++
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/32567

Language

C++

• Assignee: Yaron Gvili
• Reporter: Yaron Gvili
• Created: 02/Aug/22 19:47
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 11:49
• Resolved: 17/Aug/22 16:37

Description

Currently, type categories are only available as vectors, e.g., the category of integer types is available via `arrow::IntTypes()`. This issue will add type category membership test, e.g. `arrow::IsIntType(type)`.

Following discussions, this issue ended up covering the following:

• Additional type category predicates
• Convenience predicates accepting a `DataType` parameter
• Documentation and testing of the predicates

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #13783