[ARROW-7113] [Rust] Buffer should accept memory owned by others

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.16.0
• Component/s: Rust
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/23417
• Assignee: Renjie Liu
• Reporter: Renjie Liu
• Created: 12/Nov/19 08:15
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:51
• Resolved: 24/Nov/19 23:15

Description

Currently rust Buffer always assume that the memory passed to it is owned by itself, and frees the memory when Buffer is dropped. This is inconvenient when used in cross language environments such as jni. 

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #5806