[ARROW-572] [C++] Apply visitor pattern in IPC metadata

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.13.0
• Component/s: C++
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/16207
• Assignee: Wes McKinney
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 21/Feb/17 14:41
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:09
• Resolved: 27/Feb/19 17:40

Description

This would be cleaner than the current code. I will wait until after ARROW-534 and ARROW-459 to do this to avoid merge/rebase conflicts