Trying to use for Android but keep getting No DefaultAllocationManager found on classpath

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
android, java, kotlin
Domain
mobile-dev

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Start by reproducing the failure with DataFrame.readArrowFeather, RootAllocator, and ArrowStreamReader on Android, using the listed arrow-vector, arrow-memory-core, arrow-memory-unsafe, and arrow-memory-netty dependencies. Trace why DefaultAllocationManager is not found at runtime and verify whether Android is supported. Done means Arrow stream and file parsing work on Android without the allocation-manager error.

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Description

Type: bug
Describe the bug, including details regarding any error messages, version, and platform.

I have all the dependencies in place, code compiles just fine but when I run it and attempt to parse from an arrow stream like this (or using any of the parsers like from a file)

val df = DataFrame.readArrowFeather(channel.toInputStream(null))

I always get

Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: No DefaultAllocationManager found on classpath. Can't allocate Arrow buffers. Please consider adding arrow-memory-netty or arrow-memory-unsafe as a dependency.

Same for
val rootAllocator = RootAllocator()
val fileInputStream = FileInputStream(File(filepath))
val arrowReader = ArrowStreamReader(fileInputStream, rootAllocator)

Asking Gradle for my arrow dependencies I see

| +--- org.jetbrains.kotlinx:dataframe-arrow:1.0.0-dev-7570
| | +--- org.apache.arrow:arrow-vector:18.1.0
| | | +--- org.apache.arrow:arrow-format:18.1.0
| | | +--- org.apache.arrow:arrow-memory-core:18.1.0
| | +--- org.apache.arrow:arrow-format:18.1.0 ()
| | +--- org.apache.arrow:arrow-memory-unsafe:18.1.0
| | | --- org.apache.arrow:arrow-memory-core:18.1.0 (
)
+--- org.jetbrains.kotlinx:dataframe-arrow:1.0.0-dev-7570 ()
+--- org.apache.arrow:arrow-memory-unsafe:18.1.0 (
)

This happens even if I don't use org.jetbrains.kotlinx.dataframe and just call the Apache Arrow parser directly as seen in second code example above.

I have tried adding both arrow-memory-unsage and arrow-memory-netty with the same result. I have been beating my head against a wall for the last few days. Is Android supported with this library? The data from the server comes to me in arrow-stream format so I need to be able to parse it to shows charts.

I have been able to parse the data just fine with Python and the web team is parsing it as well. I need to do this for Native Android and Native iOS.

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