[ARROW-6391] [Python][Flight] Add built-in methods on FlightServerBase to start server and wait for it to be available

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.15.0
• Component/s: FlightRPC, Python
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/22764
• Assignee: Krisztian Szucs
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 30/Aug/19 05:09
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:46
• Resolved: 17/Sep/19 15:56

Description

It seems like this logic could be a part of the library / made general purpose to make it more convenient to spawn servers in Python

https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/python/pyarrow/tests/test_flight.py#L414

Issue Links

• relates to: ARROW-6390 [Python][Flight] Add Python documentation / tutorial for Flight
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #5374