[PARQUET-1837] [C++] Expose an API that surface RLE information for rep/def levels when reading parquet files

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: parquet-cpp
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Micah Kornfield
• Created: 11/Apr/20 06:22
• Updated: 11/Apr/20 06:23

Description

When reading data from parquet it can potentially be more efficient to have a direct interface to read back RLE values, instead of exploding them to int16_t