[ARROW-4554] [JS] Implement logic for combining Vectors with different lengths/chunksizes

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: JS-0.4.0
• Fix Version/s: JS-0.4.1
• Component/s: JavaScript
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/21102
• Assignee: Paul Taylor
• Reporter: Paul Taylor
• Due: 12/Feb/19
• Created: 13/Feb/19 05:07
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:34
• Resolved: 21/Feb/19 16:15

Description

We should add logic to combine and possibly slice/re-chunk and uniformly partition chunks into separate RecordBatches. This will make it easier to create Tables or RecordBatches from Vectors of different lengths. This is also necessary for Table#assign(). PR incoming.