[ARROW-1636] [Format] Integration tests for null type

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.17.0
• Component/s: C++, Integration, Java
• Labels: columnar-format-1.0 pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/15484
• Assignee: Wes McKinney
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 03/Oct/17 21:28
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:15
• Resolved: 26/Feb/20 17:18

Description

This was not implemented on the C++ side, and came up in ARROW-1584. Realistically arrays may be of null type, and we should be able to message these correctly

Issue Links

• depends upon: ARROW-1637 [C++] IPC round-trip for null type
• depends upon: ARROW-1638 [Java] IPC roundtrip for null type
• is a parent of: ARROW-6644 [JS] Amend NullType IPC protocol to append no buffers
• is a parent of: ARROW-6646 [Go] Amend NullType IPC implementation to append no buffers in RecordBatch message
• is blocked by: ARROW-7899 [Integration][Java] null type integration test
• is related to: ARROW-6643 [C#] Write no IPC buffer metadata for NullType
• relates to: ARROW-3667 [JS] Incorrectly reads record batches with an all null column
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #6368