[ARROW-8797] [C++] Support Flight RPC among diffent endian platforms

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.0
• Component/s: C++, FlightRPC
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/24942
• Assignee: Kazuaki Ishizaki
• Reporter: Kazuaki Ishizaki
• Created: 14/May/20 11:30
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:02
• Resolved: 17/Feb/21 14:44

Description

This PR is derived from discussion in ARROW-8790. The current implementation of the Flight RPC exchanges messages using a native endlian format. It does not allow us to exchange data though Flight RPC among different endian machines (e.g. x86_64 <-> s390x).

There is a field to show an endianness at https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/format/Schema.fbs#L343-L346, which is added by ARROW-245.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #41
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #58
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #7507