Hi Simon, If you're interested in adding a record interface, the Scalar classes might be a good place to start. They represent a value from an array slot and it should be fairly straightforward to extract a table row as a StructScalar
On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 1:27 PM Wes McKinney <[email protected]> wrote: > hi Simon -- I don't think there is any such Row accessor class in Java > but you are welcome to contribute one to the project. For performance > sensitive applications, using a record interface might not be the best > idea, but I can understand the convenience for some uses cases. > > - Wes > > On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 4:55 AM Simon Dumke <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > > > I did not find anything (and so: no definite answer) in the docs, so i > > thought to ask here: > > > > > > > > > > Does Arrow (and at this point my main concern is Arrow for java) support > > any type of concept that allows a "record level access" (so, a "row") to > > data in an Arrow RecordBatch or Table? I would have thougt that even in > > column-oriented analytics etc. this would be a common last step access > > pattern over many use cases, but i could not find any references to such > a > > thing. > > > > > > > > > > Thanks and kind regards, > > Simon > > > > >
