[PARQUET-434] Add a ParquetFileReader class to encapsulate some low-level details of interacting with Parquet files

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: cpp-1.0.0
• Component/s: parquet-cpp
• Assignee: Wes McKinney
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 19/Jan/16 21:10
• Updated: 23/Jun/24 03:27
• Resolved: 26/Jan/16 23:55

Description

This is also related to PARQUET-418. I'm beginning work on an adapter between Parquet and in-memory C++ data structures, and it would be helpful for the moment to encapsulate various details like metadata deserialization.

This class can be expanded to include other features (such as yielding column readers) in future patches.

I've inspected the patch in https://github.com/apache/parquet-cpp/pull/18 and expect there to be little overlap. nongli if you can have a look at that and let us know how to proceed, that would be great.