[ARROW-9849] [Rust] [DataFusion] Make UDFs not need a Field

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: Rust, Rust - DataFusion
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/25887
• Assignee: Jorge Leitão
• Reporter: Jorge Leitão
• Created: 25/Aug/20 06:57
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:09
• Resolved: 26/Aug/20 02:15

Description

https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/7967, shows that it is possible to not require users to pass a `Field` to UDFs declarations and instead just pass a `DataType`.

Let's deprecate Field from them, and instead just use `DataType`.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #8045