[ARROW-7379] [C++] Introduce SchemaBuilder companion class and Field::IsCompatibleWith

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.16.0
• Component/s: C++
• Labels: dataset pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/23655
• Assignee: Francois Saint-Jacques
• Reporter: Francois Saint-Jacques
• Created: 12/Dec/19 16:04
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:53
• Resolved: 20/Dec/19 15:09

Description

The methods verifies if fields/schemas are compatible with regards to naming and type. This is a partly extracted from `UnifySchemas`.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #6056