[ARROW-6276] [C++] Add operator[] to some concrete Array implementations?

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 7.0.0
• Component/s: C++
• Labels: good-first-issue pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/22660
• Assignee: Pradeep Garigipati
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 16/Aug/19 16:29
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:46
• Resolved: 30/Nov/21 12:40

Description

I have occasionally been in situations where I want to pass in e.g. Int32Array or BooleanArray into a template that also can accept STL sequence types like std::vector<bool> – in such cases the main API of interest is []. Would there be interest in aliasing operator[] to return the result of GetView (or to deprecate GetView in favor of operator[])?

Issue Links

• is blocked by: ARROW-7178 [C++] Vendor forward compatible std::optional
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #11694