[ARROW-14698] [Documentation][FlightRPC] Add prose and API documentation for Flight SQL

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 8.0.0
• Component/s: Documentation, FlightRPC
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/30238
• Assignee: David Li
• Reporter: David Li
• Created: 12/Nov/21 15:43
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:41
• Resolved: 08/Apr/22 15:32

Description

Once Flight SQL lands (ARROW-12922, ARROW-14421) we should add documentation:

• Protocol-level documentation similar to that for Flight,
• Sequence diagrams for the request flow,
• API documentation in C++ and Java.
• Example server/client.

Issue Links

• is related to: ARROW-15600 [C++][FlightRPC] Add a simple Flight SQL example
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #12616