Great! Looking at your PR and opening JIRAs. On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Wes McKinney <wesmck...@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi folks, > > After a long road, we're getting very close to having tests proving > that the Java and C++ Arrow implementations are binary compatible -- > this will be an exciting major milestone for the project. If you > haven't been following along recent JIRAs, the way these tests work is > as follows: > > 1) Testing dataset is specified in JSON format > > 2) Producer library (e.g. Java) reads JSON into Arrow in-memory, then > writes out to an Arrow file IPC binary format > > 3) Consumer library (e.g. C++) attempts to read both the JSON and the > binary file yielded by the producer library. The consumer compares the > in-memory schemas and columnar data structures and indicates whether > they are binary-identical > > I found a couple initial incompatibilities in the file format > implementations, cited here: > https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/211#issuecomment-262080545. > > Thanks > Wes > -- Julien
