[ARROW-12578] [JS] Simplify UTF8 handling in NodeJS

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 4.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.1, 5.0.0
• Component/s: JavaScript
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/28335
• Assignee: Dominik Moritz
• Reporter: Adam Lippai
• Created: 28/Apr/21 00:35
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:27
• Resolved: 15/May/21 21:38

Description

Removing Buffer() usage in favor of TextEncoder() API which is standard.

I didn't see any difference in performance (359s vs 360s) and the removal helps with maintenance. See: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/8418#issuecomment-827972276

 

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: ARROW-12734 [JS] Arrow v4.0.0 breaks Snowpack builds
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #10181
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #10332