[ARROW-3283] [Java] Provide API for inspecting IPC file footer metadata

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Component/s: Java
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/19622
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 21/Sep/18 15:24
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:26
• Resolved: 06/May/19 14:15

Description

This is not exposed in the Java API, while the footer data is used internally,

see https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/java/vector/src/main/java/org/apache/arrow/vector/ipc/ArrowFileReader.java#L38