That was a quick reply :) More specifically would like to convert a monthinterval array to an int array...in bulk, so ideally using a cast or similar compute function.
I can do it manually, but just wondering if there is a cast or similar mechanism in compute. On Thu., 21 Oct. 2021, 7:04 pm Micah Kornfield, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Matt, > Which language? MonthInterval has been around for a while but has not > received a lot of attention. In C++ at least MonthIntervalArray is just a > specialization of NumericArray [1], where each slot holds the number of > months, so you don't really need to use compute functions to get at the > value (just direct or visitor access is sufficient). > > -Micah > > [1] > https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/3317f83526cf6cfc6c749748b3e836114262a8d0/cpp/src/arrow/array/array_primitive.h#L107 > > On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 12:34 AM Matt Youill <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Can't seem to figure out how to work with this arrays of this type - >> MonthInterval. >> >> Is there a way to extract the underlying int using the compute >> functions? Cast? Month? Is it simply too new? >> >> Thanks, Matt >> >>
