[ARROW-6194] [Java] Add non-static approach in DictionaryEncoder making it easy to extend and reuse

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.15.0
• Component/s: Java
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/22586
• Assignee: Ji Liu
• Reporter: Ji Liu
• Created: 10/Aug/19 16:42
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:45
• Resolved: 14/Aug/19 05:49

Description

As discussed in https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/4994.

Current static DictionaryEncoder has some limitation for extension and reuse.

Slightly change the APIs and migrate static method to object based approach.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #5055