[ARROW-7364] [Rust] Add cast options to cast kernel

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.0
• Component/s: Rust
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/23641
• Assignee: Mike Seddon
• Reporter: Neville Dipale
• Created: 10/Dec/19 10:03
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:53
• Resolved: 06/Apr/21 13:22

Description

The cast kernels currently do not take explicit options, but instead convert overflows and invalid uft8 to nulls. We can create options that customise the behaviour, similarly to CastOptions in CPP (https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/cpp/src/arrow/compute/kernels/cast.h#L38)

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #9682