[ARROW-8966] [C++] Move arrow::ArrayData to a separate header file

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.0.0
• Component/s: C++
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/25091
• Assignee: Wes McKinney
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 27/May/20 16:27
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:03
• Resolved: 02/Jun/20 15:28

Description

There are code modules (such as compute kernels) that only require ArrayData for doing computations, so pulling in all the code in array.h is not necessary. There are probably other code paths that might benefit from this also.

Issue Links

• relates to: ARROW-8894 [C++] C++ array kernels framework and execution buildout (umbrella issue)