Mandukhai-Alimaa opened a new issue, #462: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-go/issues/462
### Describe the enhancement requested In downstream projects using the Apache Arrow Go library — particularly in driver implementations and generic data ingestion layers — there’s often a need to extract values from an arrow.Array without knowing its concrete type ahead of time. Currently, this requires verbose type switches and manual downcasting for each array type, which adds boilerplate and makes generic handling of data more complex. To simplify this pattern, we propose adding a method to the Array interface that returns the Go-native equivalent of the value at a given index. For example: ValueAsAny(index int) any This change would significantly reduce boilerplate and improve ergonomics in downstream projects that need to interface with Arrow arrays in a type-agnostic way. ### Component(s) Other -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
