My opinion isn't worth much, but any extra metadata and utility methods/classes to work with them are incredibly useful for tools that do dynamic/programmatic generation of UI's or codegen.
Imagining a service that takes a FlightSQL connection and generates a web UI for CRUD dynamically using the schema/table/column metadata, or similar tools. On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 2:06 PM José Almeida < jose.alme...@simbioseventures.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > My team and I are submitting some additions to the FlightSQL protocol. > > We are proposing to add a new method called GetXdbcTypeInfo which will > have the responsibility to get all the information of the datatype > related to the source [1]. > We are also proposing a ColumnMetadata return in operations such as > Prepared Statement, GetTables. [2] > > We already received some feedback from David Li and Antonie Pitrou. > However, we would like some more feedback so we can get these changes > over the line. > > These changes will be crucial to the construction of the JDBC (that's > already being > developed[3]) and ODBC driver on top of the FlightSQL. > > [1] https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/11982 > [2] https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/11999 > [3] https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/12254 > > Thanks, > Jose Almeida >
