sgilmore10 opened a new issue, #38015:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/38015
### Describe the enhancement requested
To unblock use cases that are not satisfied by the default Arrow -> MATLAB
conversions (i.e. the `toMATLAB()` on `arrow.array.Array`), we would like
expose the underlying Arrow data representation as a property on
`arrow.array.Array`. One possible name for this property would be `DataLayout`,
which would be an `arrow.array.DataLayout` object. Note, this class does not
yet exist, so we would have to add it.
For example, the `DataLayout` property for temporal array types would return
an object of the following class type:
```matlab
classdef TemporalDataLayout < arrow.array.DataLayout
properties
Values % an arrow.array.Int32Array or an arrow.array.Int64Array
Valid % an arrow.buffer.Buffer
end
end
```
However, the `Valid` property on this class would need to be an
`arrow.buffer.Buffer` object, which does not yet exist in the MATLAB interface.
Therefore, it would be helpful to first add the `arrow.buffer.Buffer` class
before adding the `DataLayout` property/class hierarchy. It's worth mentioning
that adding `arrow.buffer.Buffer` will open up additional advanced use cases in
the future.
### Component(s)
MATLAB
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