[ARROW-1255] [Plasma] Check plasma flatbuffer messages with the flatbuffer verifier

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.6.0
• Component/s: C++ - Plasma
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/17136
• Assignee: Hongjin Yu
• Reporter: Philipp Moritz
• Created: 24/Jul/17 18:25
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:13
• Resolved: 26/Jul/17 03:42

Description

The proposal here is to check requests that are send to plasma via the flatbuffers protocol for validity using the flatbuffers verifier. For efficiency reasons this should only be done in debug builds.

This will prevent typos like https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/878 and will also prevent errors from possible future plasma clients written in different languages.