[ARROW-13449] [Format][FlightRPC] Clarify that schemas are IPC-encapsulated

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 7.0.0
• Component/s: FlightRPC, Format
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/29114
• Assignee: Nate Bauernfeind
• Reporter: David Li
• Created: 26/Jul/21 14:40
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:33
• Resolved: 26/Oct/21 18:07

Description

FlightRPC.proto is ambiguous about whether schemas are meant to be the raw Flatbuffer or IPC-encapsulated, but all implementations choose the latter and it was intended to be encapsulated. We should update the comments.

See ML discussion: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd3538bb70753661b33fb37ebde895bbf6859d044e5cc4c4f4353534c%40%3Cdev.arrow.apache.org%3E

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #11549