cpp/src/arrow/compute/registry.h

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#pragma once

#include <memory>
#include <string>
#include <vector>

#include "arrow/result.h"
#include "arrow/status.h"
#include "arrow/util/visibility.h"

namespace arrow {
namespace compute {

class Function;

/// \brief A mutable central function registry for built-in functions as well
/// as user-defined functions. Functions are implementations of
/// arrow::compute::Function.
///
/// Generally, each function contains kernels which are implementations of a
/// function for a specific argument signature. After looking up a function in
/// the registry, one can either execute it eagerly with Function::Execute or
/// use one of the function's dispatch methods to pick a suitable kernel for
/// lower-level function execution.
class ARROW_EXPORT FunctionRegistry {
 public:
  ~FunctionRegistry();

  /// \brief Construct a new registry. Most users only need to use the global
  /// registry
  static std::unique_ptr<FunctionRegistry> Make();

  /// \brief Add a new function to the registry. Returns Status::KeyError if a
  /// function with the same name is already registered
  Status AddFunction(std::shared_ptr<Function> function, bool allow_overwrite = false);

  /// \brief Add aliases for the given function name. Returns Status::KeyError if the
  /// function with the given name is not registered
  Status AddAlias(const std::string& target_name, const std::string& source_name);

  /// \brief Retrieve a function by name from the registry
  Result<std::shared_ptr<Function>> GetFunction(const std::string& name) const;

  /// \brief Return vector of all entry names in the registry. Helpful for
  /// displaying a manifest of available functions
  std::vector<std::string> GetFunctionNames() const;

  /// \brief The number of currently registered functions
  int num_functions() const;

 private:
  FunctionRegistry();

  // Use PIMPL pattern to not have std::unordered_map here
  class FunctionRegistryImpl;
  std::unique_ptr<FunctionRegistryImpl> impl_;
};

/// \brief Return the process-global function registry
ARROW_EXPORT FunctionRegistry* GetFunctionRegistry();

}  // namespace compute
}  // namespace arrow