[jira] [Created] (ARROW-3547) [R] Protect against Null crash when reading from RecordBatch

["Javier Luraschi (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Javier Luraschi created ARROW-3547:
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             Summary: [R] Protect against Null crash when reading from RecordBatch
                 Key: ARROW-3547
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-3547
             Project: Apache Arrow
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: R
            Reporter: Javier Luraschi


Reprex:

 
{code:java}
  tbl <- tibble::tibble(
    int = 1:10, dbl = as.numeric(1:10),
    lgl = sample(c(TRUE, FALSE, NA), 10, replace = TRUE),
    chr = letters[1:10]
  )

  batch <- record_batch(tbl)
  bytes <- write_record_batch(batch, raw())

  stream_reader <- record_batch_stream_reader(bytes)
  batch1 <- read_record_batch(stream_reader)

  batch2 <- read_record_batch(stream_reader)
  
  # Crash
  as_tibble(batch2){code}
 

While users should check for Null entries by running:

 
{code:java}
if(!batch2$is_null()) as_tibble(batch2)
{code}
It's harsh to trigger a crash, we should consider protecting all functions that use RecordBatch pointers to return NULL instead, for instance:

 
{code:java}
List RecordBatch__to_dataframe(const std::shared_ptr<arrow::RecordBatch>& batch) {
   if (batch->get() == nullptr) Rcpp::stop("Can't read from NULL record batch.")
}{code}
 

 



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