[ARROW-4474] [Flight] FlightInfo should use signed integer types for payload size

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.13.0
• Component/s: FlightRPC
• Labels: flight pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/21031
• Assignee: David Li
• Reporter: David Li
• Created: 04/Feb/19 19:19
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:34
• Resolved: 15/Feb/19 13:41

Description

The de-facto practice is to use -1 in FlightInfo to indicate that the number of records/size of the payload is unknown, looking at the Java implementation. However, the Protobuf definition uses an unsigned integer type, as does the C++ implementation.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #3555