Improve IPCTests
- Dominant language
- Swift
- Stars
- 32
- Forks
- 18
- Avg merge
- 19h 14m
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 2
Description
### Describe the enhancement requested
In #95 a fix for the `Block` metadata length was added, however this is difficult to test because there is no API to access `Block`s in the footer.
A temporary fix might be to just read the footer in IPC tests and ensure that record batches can be accessed with the block metadata. Alternatively, perhaps a random access API could be added to `ArrowReader`?
There is also no test to ensure other implementations can read the files created with ArrowWriter. @kou mentioned Archery should be used for this.
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start with the IPC tests and the ArrowReader/ArrowWriter entry points mentioned in the issue. Check how the footer and Block metadata are currently accessed, then use Archery to verify that files written by ArrowWriter can be read by other implementations. Done means Block metadata length and record-batch access are covered, with cross-implementation compatibility tested.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- swift
- Domain
- data, testing
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100