[GitHub] [carbondata] ajantha-bhat commented on a change in pull request #3193: [CARBONDATA-3365] Integrate apache arrow vector filling to carbon SDK

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ajantha-bhat commented on a change in pull request #3193: [CARBONDATA-3365] Integrate apache arrow vector filling to carbon SDK
URL: https://github.com/apache/carbondata/pull/3193#discussion_r281201809
 
 

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 File path: store/sdk/src/main/java/org/apache/carbondata/sdk/file/CarbonReader.java
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 @@ -94,6 +96,43 @@ public T readNextRow() throws IOException, InterruptedException {
     return currentReader.getCurrentValue();
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Carbon reader will fill the arrow vector after reading the carbondata files.
+   * This arrow byte[] can be used to create arrow table and used for in memory analytics
+   *
+   * Note: create a reader at blocklet level, so that arrow byte[] will not exceed INT_MAX
+   *
+   * @param carbonSchema
+   * @return
+   * @throws Exception
+   */
+  public byte[] readArrowBatch(Schema carbonSchema) throws Exception {
+    ArrowConverter arrowConverter = new ArrowConverter(carbonSchema, 10000);
+    while (hasNext()) {
+      arrowConverter.addToArrowBuffer(readNextBatchRow());
+    }
+    return arrowConverter.toSerializeArray();
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Carbon reader will fill the arrow vector after reading carbondata files.
+   * Here unsafe memory address will be returned instead of byte[],
+   * so that this address can be sent across java to python or c modules and
+   * can directly read the content from this unsafe memory
 
 Review comment:
   No limitation as unsafe memory is freed after usage. 

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