[ARROW-9862] Throw an exception in UnsafeDirectLittleEndian on Big-Endian platform

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0
• Component/s: Java
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/25899
• Assignee: Kazuaki Ishizaki
• Reporter: Kazuaki Ishizaki
• Created: 26/Aug/20 06:16
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:09
• Resolved: 14/Nov/20 06:41

Description

The current code throws an intended exception on a big-endian platform while this class supports native endianness for the primitive data types (up to 64-bit).

throw new IllegalStateException("Arrow only runs on LittleEndian systems.");

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #8057