[jira] [Comment Edited] (ARROW-602) C++: Provide iterator access to primitive elements inside a Column/ChunkedArray

["Johan Mabille (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Johan Mabille edited comment on ARROW-602 at 3/17/17 1:48 PM:
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Ok, so it is possible to provide an STL compliant iterator. Cool !

I think most of the use cases would be to apply STL-like algorithms, so it makes sense to iterate over non-null values only. Later we can provide a "full" iteration interface for the case where iteration over null values is required, what do you think ?


was (Author: johanmabille):
Ok, so it is possible to provide an STL compliant iterator. Cool !

I think most of the use cases would be to apply STL-like algorithms, so it makes sense to iterate over non-null values only. And we can provide a "full" iteration interface for the case where iteration over null values is required, what do you think ?

> C++: Provide iterator access to primitive elements inside a Column/ChunkedArray
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>
>                 Key: ARROW-602
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-602
>             Project: Apache Arrow
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: C++
>            Reporter: Uwe L. Korn
>              Labels: beginner, newbie
>
> Given a ChunkedArray, an Arrow user must currently iterate over all its chunks and then cast them to their types to extract the primitive memory regions to access the values. A convenient way to access the underlying values would be to offer a function that takes a ChunkedArray and returns a C++ iterator over all elements.
> While this may not be the most performant way to access the underlying data, it should have sufficient performance and adds a convenience layer for new users.



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