[ARROW-5979] [FlightRPC] Expose (de)serialization of protocol types

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.15.0
• Component/s: FlightRPC
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/22387
• Assignee: David Li
• Reporter: David Li
• Created: 18/Jul/19 18:58
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:44
• Resolved: 25/Jul/19 16:01

Description

It would be nice to be able to serialize/deserialize Flight types (e.g. FlightInfo) to/from the binary representations, in order to interoperate with systems that might want to provide (say) Flight tickets or FlightInfo without using the Flight protocol. For instance, you might have a search server that exposes a REST interface and wants to provide FlightInfo objects for Flight clients, without having to listen on a separate port.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #4914