rdettai commented on a change in pull request #950:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion/pull/950#discussion_r697226770



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File path: datafusion/src/datasource/object_store/mod.rs
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+//! Object Store abstracts access to an underlying file/object storage.
+
+pub mod local;
+
+use std::collections::HashMap;
+use std::fmt::Debug;
+use std::pin::Pin;
+use std::sync::{Arc, RwLock};
+
+use async_trait::async_trait;
+use futures::{AsyncRead, Stream};
+
+use local::LocalFileSystem;
+
+use crate::error::{DataFusionError, Result};
+use chrono::Utc;
+
+/// Object Reader for one file in a object store
+#[async_trait]
+pub trait ObjectReader {
+    /// Get reader for a part [start, start + length] in the file 
asynchronously
+    async fn get_reader(&self, start: u64, length: usize) -> Result<Arc<dyn 
AsyncRead>>;
+
+    /// Get length for the file asynchronously
+    async fn length(&self) -> Result<u64>;
+}
+
+/// File meta we got from object store
+pub struct FileMeta {
+    /// Path of the file
+    pub path: String,
+    /// Last time the file was modified in UTC
+    pub last_modified: Option<chrono::DateTime<Utc>>,
+    /// File size in total
+    pub size: Option<u64>,

Review comment:
       You are right that technically the S3 API says the `size` field is 
optional in the list response. I couldn't find why. It might make sense when 
the `Object` is a prefix and not an actual object (for exemple if you list the 
memsql-tpch-dataset bucket, you will get entries for `sf_100/`, 
`sf_100/customer/`...), but actually with Rusoto, even in that case the `size` 
field is set to `Some(0)` 🙃.
   
   My argument is that _we can expect from any system that provides the list of 
filenames to also reliably provide the file sizes_. With this assumption, 
avoiding an optional field helps simplifying consumers that do use that 
information. For instance for parquet you will need to read from the end. As 
the `ObjectReader` works using the (start, length) tuple, we critically need 
the length to get the end of the file. This means that if the `size` provided 
from the listing is optional, every implementation of  `ObjectReader.length` 
will need to have a branch with the case where the size was provided, in which 
case it uses it directly, and another branch where it fetches the size from the 
store. I find this adds some complexity. 
   
   For me the true question is whether the assumption _we can expect from any 
system that provides the list of filenames to also reliably provide the file 
sizes_ holds. I am pretty sure it does, but if you don't think so we can 
definitively pay the price of `Option<>` 😉 
   




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