[ARROW-2583] [Rust] Buffer should be typeless

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.11.0
• Component/s: Rust
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/18965
• Assignee: Chao Sun
• Reporter: Andy Grove
• Created: 15/May/18 13:10
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:21
• Resolved: 17/Aug/18 16:51

Description

See comments in https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/1971 for background on this but the summary is that Buffer should just deal with untyped memory e.g. `* const u8` and all type-handling should be moved to the Array layer e.g. `BufferArray<T>`.

This would be more consistent with the other implementations.

 

 

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2330