alamb commented on issue #6156:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/6156#issuecomment-2264003877

   The way I think about this is that `ArrowFlight` isn't really a protocol 
itself, but rather the building blocks to create a protocol that can send Arrow 
RecordBatches back and forth. 
   
   Most of the underlying functiions in `ArrowFlight` such as `DoGet` provide a 
way to pass "Opaque" payloads like `Tickets`
   
   `ArrowFlightSQL` is  a protocol that is built on top of `ArrowFlight` and 
basically defines the structure of these opaque payloads. For example, the 
`Ticket` sent to `DoGet` in `FlightSQL` is one of several message types defined 
in the FlightSQL spec
   
   The `FlightSQLService` is trying to make it easier to use flightsql by 
handling the decoding and dispatching of the FligthSQL messages. For example, 
here is the dispatch for `DoGet`:
   
   
https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/blob/95ef912632f38b7baf083fb685d6a04d6805f6cd/arrow-flight/src/sql/server.rs#L658-L689
   
   
   `do_get_fallback` is invokved when the `FlightSQLService` gets a message it 
doesn't know how to handle, and let's the implementor provide their own 
handling for unknown messages if desired
   
   One usecase of this is to allow people to extend the DoGet method to accept 
more message types than are defined nin FlightSQL
   
   Hopefully tat makes senes
   
   
   


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