[jira] [Created] (ARROW-17912) Arrow C++ IPC fails to send an empty table, but Arrow Java can do it.

["Liangcai li (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Liangcai li created ARROW-17912:
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             Summary: Arrow C++ IPC fails to send an empty table, but Arrow Java can do it.
                 Key: ARROW-17912
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-17912
             Project: Apache Arrow
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: C++
            Reporter: Liangcai li


My current work is about Pyspark Cogroup Pandas UDF. And two processes are involved, the JVM one (sender) and the Python one (receiver).

[Spark is using the Arrow Java `ArrowStreamWriter`|https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/branch-3.3/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/python/CoGroupedArrowPythonRunner.scala#L99] to serialize Arrow tables being sent from the JVM process to the Python process, and ArrowStreamWriter can handle empty tables correctly.

[While cuDF is using the Arrow C++ RecordBatchWriter |https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/blob/branch-22.10/java/src/main/native/src/TableJni.cpp#L254]to do the same serialization, but it leads to an error as below on the Python side, where [the Pyspark is calling Pyarrow Table.from_batches|https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/branch-3.3/python/pyspark/sql/pandas/serializers.py#L366] to deserialize the arrow stream.

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'Must pass schema, or at least one RecordBatch'

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