Thanks both for the prompt reply. Indeed I figured out that the current
JAVA api was a "work-in-progress". Still, it is quite promising.
I managed to code a workable solution with ByteArrayOutputStream and taping
directly on Plasma API. Which is not particularly efficient but it works.
I'll have a
Bleeding edge is probably an understatement. We need someone to implement
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-2892 before this is really
feasible without copy. You could do it with Glue code today and a copy from
the memory used in the current Plasma Java client to the memory used in
Buffer
hi Gerard,
This is the right place to ask questions. The Slack channel was closed
(see prior discussions on the mailing list); few Java developers were
on Slack anyway so it wouldn't have been a good place to get help.
Using Java with Plasma is very bleeding edge territory. I don't know
if anyone