[jira] [Assigned] (ARROW-2052) Unify OwnedRef and ScopedRef

["Antoine Pitrou (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-2052?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Antoine Pitrou reassigned ARROW-2052:
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    Assignee: Antoine Pitrou

> Unify OwnedRef and ScopedRef
> ----------------------------
>
>                 Key: ARROW-2052
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-2052
>             Project: Apache Arrow
>          Issue Type: Task
>          Components: Python
>    Affects Versions: 0.8.0
>            Reporter: Antoine Pitrou
>            Assignee: Antoine Pitrou
>            Priority: Trivial
>              Labels: pull-request-available
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> Currently {{OwnedRef}} and {{ScopedRef}} have similar semantics with small differences. Furtheremore, the naming distinction isn't obvious.
> I propose to unify them as a single {{OwnedRef}} class with the following characteristics:
> - doesn't take the GIL automatically
> - has a {{release()}} method that decrefs the pointer (and sets the internal copy to NULL) before returning it
> - has a {{detach()}} method that returns the pointer (and sets the internal copy to NULL) without decrefing it
> For the rare situations where an {{OwnedRef}} may be destroyed with the GIL released, a {{OwnedRefNoGIL}} derived class would also be proposed (the naming scheme follows Cython here).
> Opinions / comments?



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