Ben Kietzman created ARROW-11508: ------------------------------------ Summary: [C++][Compute] Add support for generic conversions to Function::DispatchBest Key: ARROW-11508 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-11508 Project: Apache Arrow Issue Type: New Feature Components: C++ Affects Versions: 3.0.0 Reporter: Ben Kietzman Assignee: Ben Kietzman
ARROW-8919 adds support for execution with implicit casts to any function which overrides DispatchBest, allowing functions to specify conversions which make sense in that function's context. For example "add" can promote its arguments if their types disagree. By contrast, some conversions are more generic and could be applicable to any function's arguments. For example if any datum is dictionary encoded, a kernel which accepts the decoded type should be usable with an implicit decoding cast: {code:java} import pyarrow as pa import pyarrow.compute as pc arr = pa.array('hello ' * 10) enc = arr.dictionary_encode() # result should not depend on encoding: assert pc.ascii_is_alnum(arr) == pc.ascii_is_alnum(enc) # currently raises: # ArrowNotImplementedError: Function ascii_is_alnum has no kernel matching # input types (array[dictionary<values=string, indices=int32, ordered=0>]) {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)