[ARROW-1753] [Python] Provide for matching subclasses with register_type in serialization context

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.8.0
• Component/s: Python
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/15617
• Assignee: Dave Hirschfeld
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 30/Oct/17 13:44
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:16
• Resolved: 31/Oct/17 18:11

Description

Copied from https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/1269

To allow factoring out serialization code to a common base class it would be useful if register_type matches all subclasses rather than simply an exact match on the specific type.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1272