wesm commented on a change in pull request #7120:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/7120#discussion_r422371276
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File path: cpp/src/arrow/util/value_parsing.h
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@@ -484,6 +455,14 @@ static inline bool ParseHH_MM_SS(const char* s,
std::chrono::duration<ts_type>*
} // namespace detail
+/// \brief Attempt to convert a string to the primitive type corresponding to
+/// an Arrow data type
+template <typename T, typename ParseContext = void>
+inline bool ParseValue(const char* s, size_t length, typename T::c_type* out,
+ const ParseContext* ctx = NULLPTR) {
+ return detail::StringConverter<T>::Convert(s, length, out);
+}
+
Review comment:
It doesn't provide much value. I was trying to address @pitrou's comment
about parsers that may require some state initialization like a locale and I
used Timestamp as an example
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