[ARROW-10938] [Rust] upgrade dependency "flatbuffers" to 0.8

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0
• Component/s: Rust
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/26865
• Assignee: Qingyou Meng
• Reporter: Qingyou Meng
• Created: 16/Dec/20 15:21
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 11:16
• Resolved: 21/Dec/20 16:07

Description

[flatbuffers](https://crates.io/crates/flatbuffers) 0.8.0 was released on Dec 10, 2020, with some notable changes:

verifier
common rust traits to FlatBufferBuilder
new VectorIter
add FlatBufferBuilder::force_defaults API
Optional Scalars
up to 2018 edition
possible performance speedup
... and minor breaking change to some APIs, for example: remove "get_", return Result.

Let's try this version.

Issue Links

• is cloned by: ARROW-10997 [Rust] upgrade dependency "flatbuffers" to release after 0.8
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #8936