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Rok Mihevc commented on ARROW-229:
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This issue has been migrated to [issue
#15574|https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/15574] on GitHub. Please see the
[migration documentation|https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/14542] for
further details.
> [C++] Implement safe casts for primitive types
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> Key: ARROW-229
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-229
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: C++
> Reporter: Uwe Korn
> Assignee: Wes McKinney
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 0.7.0
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> In some situations, you want to cast the data in a PrimitiveArray to a
> different (but similar) data type, e.g. from {{uint32_t}} to {{int32_t}} or
> {{uint32_t}} to {{uint8_t}}. This can either be done by reinterpreting the
> data or needs to involve a copy if the size of the underlying type changes.
> There is already an implementation for this in {{parquet-cpp}} that could be
> pulled out into Arrow:
> https://github.com/apache/parquet-cpp/blob/9a0407e684c0a6299d0e6ab98c11c1162915c0ee/src/parquet/arrow/writer.cc#L71
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