Hi, I have started building a JDBC driver for Apache Arrow Flight [1] and it has been suggested that I use Avatica instead of building from scratch. However, I'm not sure if Avatica is really designed for this use case since I would not require the Avatica wire protocol or server process. The Flight JDBC driver needs to use the Flight protocol [2] to interact with servers implementing that protocol.
I could definitely see value in extending Avatica base classes to get things like all the ResultSet type conversion logic and DatabaseMetaData functionality since that is tedious to implement but it wasn't clear from the documentation if that was possible. I also have a slight concern (possibly unfounded) about basing the driver on the Avatica type system rather than the Arrow type system in case there are concepts that don't map cleanly. I'd appreciate any advice on the best path here. Thanks, Andy. [1] https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/6343 [2] https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2019/10/13/introducing-arrow-flight/
