Thanks Wes, The descriptor is only there to maintain a bit of symmetry with GetFlightInfo. Happy to remove it, I don't think its necessary and already a few people agree. Similar with the method name, I am neutral to the naming and can call it whatever the community is happy with.
Best, Ryan On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 3:56 PM Wes McKinney <wesmck...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm generally supporting of adding the new RPC endpoint. > > To make a couple points from the document > > * I'm not sure what the purpose of returning the FlightDescriptor is, > but I haven't thought too hard about it > * The Schema consists of a single IPC message -- dictionaries will > appear in the actual DoGet stream. To motivate why this is -- > different endpoints might have different dictionaries corresponding to > fields in the schema, to have static/constant dictionaries in a > distributed Flight setting is likely to be impractical. I summarize > the issue as "dictionaries are data, not metadata". > * I would be OK calling this GetSchema instead of GetFlightSchema but > either is okay > > - Wes > > On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 8:08 AM David Li <li.david...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi Ryan, > > > > Thanks for writing this up! I made a couple of minor comments in the > > doc/implementation, but overall I'm in favor of having this RPC > > method. > > > > Best, > > David > > > > On 8/1/19, Ryan Murray <rym...@dremio.com> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > Please see the attached document for a proposed addition to the Flight > > > RPC[1]. This is the result of a previous mailing list discussion[2]. > > > > > > I have created the Pull Request[3] to make the proposal a little more > > > concrete. > > > <https://www.dremio.com/download> > > > Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. > > > > > > Best, > > > Ryan > > > > > > [1]: > > > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zLdFYikk3owbKpHvJrARLMlmYpi-Ef6OJy7H90MqViA/edit?usp=sharing > > > [2]: > > > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/3539984493cf3d4d439bef25c150fa9e09e0b43ce0afb6be378d41df@%3Cdev.arrow.apache.org%3E > > > [3]: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/4980 > > > > -- Ryan Murray | Principal Consulting Engineer +447540852009 | rym...@dremio.com <https://www.dremio.com/> Check out our GitHub <https://www.github.com/dremio>, join our community site <https://community.dremio.com/> & Download Dremio <https://www.dremio.com/download>
