[ARROW-4419] [Flight] Test Flight servers and clients with a generic gRPC services

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: FlightRPC
• Labels: flight
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/20981
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: David Li
• Created: 29/Jan/19 16:28
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:33

Description

The Java implementation will fail to decode a schema message if the message also contains (empty) body buffers (see ArrowMessage.asSchema's precondition checks). However, clients using default Protobuf serialization will likely write an empty body buffer by default.

Issue Links

• is related to: ARROW-15287 [Docs] Document how to decode FlightData manually
• is related to: ARROW-17568 [FlightRPC][Integration] Ensure all RPC methods are covered by integration testing