[ARROW-2769] [C++][Python] Deprecate and rename add_metadata methods

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.15.0
• Component/s: C++, Python
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/19152
• Assignee: Krisztian Szucs
• Reporter: Krisztian Szucs
• Created: 30/Jun/18 09:53
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:23
• Resolved: 31/Aug/19 03:49

Description

Deprecate and replace `pyarrow.Field.add_metadata` (and other likely named methods) with replace_metadata, set_metadata or with_metadata. Knowing Spark's immutable API, I would have chosen with_metadata but I guess this is probably not what the average Python user would expect as naming.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #5232