chrisirhc opened a new issue, #67:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-go/issues/67
### Describe the enhancement requested
I wanted to gauge interest in a method on the Scalar interface to expose the
value via any/interface{} like:
```go
type Scalar interface {
…
AnyValue() any
…
}
```
Usage: This would greatly help scenarios where the user is intentionally
serializing to another format (e.g. JSON) and would like to incur memory
overhead.
For example, creating an array of anys for serialization. I know that
`String()` can also be used for this, but it doesn't preserve the type.
I'm thinking that this also allows the user to recover the type via casting
subsequently. However, it allows for handling the scalar value without casting
of the Scalar value first.
Example usage:
```go
func RecordsToAnyArr(recs []arrow.Record) (rec [][]any, err error) {
rows := make([][]any, 0)
for _, rec := range recs {
for r := 0; r < int(rec.NumRows()); r++ {
row := make([]any, rec.NumCols())
for c := 0; c < int(rec.NumCols()); c++ {
col := rec.Column(c)
s, err := scalar.GetScalar(col, r)
if err != nil {
return err
}
row[c] = s.AnyValue()
rows = append(rows, row)
}
}
}
```
Today, this would large switch case statement to achieve this.
Let me know if I'm missing something.
### Component(s)
Go
Related to apache/arrow#10972
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