[ARROW-9475] [Java] Clean up usages of BaseAllocator, use BufferAllocator instead

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.17.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0
• Component/s: Java
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/25546
• Assignee: Hongze Zhang
• Reporter: Hongze Zhang
• Created: 15/Jul/20 07:12
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:07
• Resolved: 16/Oct/20 05:21

Description

Some classes' methods use BaseAllocator or cast BufferAllocator to BaseAllocator internally instead of requiring for BufferAllocator directly, e.g. codes in AllocationManager, BufferLedger.

This can be optimized by exposing necessary methods from BufferAllocator.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #7768