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+// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
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+// regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+// to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+// "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+// with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+// software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+// "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+// KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+// specific language governing permissions and limitations
+// under the License.
+
+#pragma once
+
+#include <cstdint>
+#include <memory>
+#include <utility>
+
+#include "arrow/result.h"
+#include "arrow/type_fwd.h"
+#include "arrow/util/type_fwd.h"
+#include "arrow/util/visibility.h"
+
+namespace arrow {
+namespace csv {
+
+class BlockParser;
+struct ConvertOptions;
+
+class ARROW_EXPORT ColumnDecoder {
+ public:
+ virtual ~ColumnDecoder() = default;
+
+ /// Spawn a task that will try to convert and insert the given CSV block
+ virtual Future<std::shared_ptr<Array>> Decode(
+ const std::shared_ptr<BlockParser>& parser) = 0;
+
+ /// Construct a strictly-typed ColumnDecoder.
+ static Result<std::shared_ptr<ColumnDecoder>> Make(MemoryPool* pool,
+ std::shared_ptr<DataType> type,
+ int32_t col_index,
+ const ConvertOptions& options);
+
+ /// Construct a type-inferring ColumnDecoder.
+ /// Inference will run only on the first block, the type will be frozen afterwards.
+ static Result<std::shared_ptr<ColumnDecoder>> Make(MemoryPool* pool, int32_t col_index,
+ const ConvertOptions& options);
+
+ /// Construct a ColumnDecoder for a column of nulls
+ /// (i.e. not present in the CSV file).
+ static Result<std::shared_ptr<ColumnDecoder>> MakeNull(MemoryPool* pool,
+ std::shared_ptr<DataType> type);
+
+ protected:
+ ColumnDecoder() = default;
+};
+
+} // namespace csv
+} // namespace arrow