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IPC writer silently writes a corrupt stream for a Table from another copy of apache-arrow

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@kentkwu ya está trabajando en esto.

Desde el 6/10/2026.

  • #500 de @kentkwu — abierto

Evaluación

Dificultad
3/5
Tiempo estimado
1-2 días
Aptitud para principiantes
68/100
Tipo de issue
Error
Claridad
Bien especificado
Estado de actividad
Activo
Stack tecnológico
node.js, typescript
Área
backend, data

Línea de trabajo

Start in src/visitor.ts at getVisitFn, where the issue identifies instanceof DataType checks as the cause; compare with DataType.isDataType() in src/type.ts. Add or update tests for cross-copy types and run the relevant visitor and IPC tests. Done means tables from separate CommonJS and ES module builds serialize with valid types and buffers and round-trip successfully.

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Descripción

[!NOTE]
I discovered this issue and wrote it up with help from Claude Opus 5.5.

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

Since #377 (released in 21.2.0), instanceof Table accepts a Table created by another copy of apache-arrow. tableToIPC then serializes such a table without any error, but the Arrow IPC stream it writes is unusable: field types are missing or wrong, and the dictionary and record batch messages have empty bodies. None of the data is written.

An easy way to get two copies is the package's own CommonJS and ES module builds. Node loads them separately when, for example, an ES module application passes a table to a CommonJS library. Bundlers can do the same through the import and require conditions.

Reproduction

apache-arrow 21.2.0, Node.js 24.8.0, macOS:

// repro.mjs
import { createRequire } from "node:module";
import * as esm from "apache-arrow";
const cjs = createRequire(import.meta.url)("apache-arrow");

const table = esm.tableFromArrays({ id: Int32Array.from([1, 2]), text: ["a", "b"] });
console.log(esm.Table === cjs.Table, table instanceof cjs.Table);  // false true

const crossBuild = cjs.tableToIPC(table, "stream");  // No error
const sameBuild = esm.tableToIPC(table, "stream");
console.log(crossBuild.length, sameBuild.length);  // 440 648

esm.tableFromIPC(crossBuild);
// TypeError: Cannot destructure property 'length' of '(intermediate value)(intermediate value)(intermediate value)' as it is undefined.
//     at .../apache-arrow/visitor/vectorloader.mjs:154

PyArrow 25.0.1 rejects the same crossBuild bytes with OSError: Invalid flatbuffers message. The sameBuild stream reads correctly in both.

Single-column tables fail in different ways. In each case the cross-build stream has empty message bodies:

Column type Same-build bodies Cross-build bodies PyArrow reading the cross-build stream
Int32 batch: 8 bytes batch: 0 bytes ArrowNotImplementedError: Integers with less than 8 bits not implemented
Float64 batch: 16 bytes batch: 0 bytes OSError: buffer_index out of range.
Utf8 batch: 24 bytes batch: 0 bytes OSError: buffer_index out of range.
Dictionary<Utf8, Int32> dictionary: 24, batch: 16 bytes dictionary: 0, batch: 0 bytes OSError: Unexpected null field DictionaryEncoding.indexType in flatbuffer-encoded metadata
Cause

#377 added DataType.isDataType() for checks across copies, and deliberately did not give DataType a Symbol.hasInstance. But getVisitFn still dispatches on node instanceof DataType and node.type instanceof DataType. A type from another copy fails both checks and falls through to Type.NONE. As a result, TypeAssembler writes no type, and no indexType for a dictionary, and the writer emits no buffers. Nothing reports an error.

Suggested fix

Use the cross-copy check in getVisitFn:

-    if (node && (node instanceof DataType)) {
+    if (node && DataType.isDataType(node)) {
         return getVisitFnByTypeId(visitor, inferDType(node), throwIfNotFound);
     }
-    if (node?.type && (node.type instanceof DataType)) {
+    if (node?.type && DataType.isDataType(node.type)) {
         return getVisitFnByTypeId(visitor, inferDType(node.type), throwIfNotFound);
     }

I applied the equivalent change to visitor.js in the CommonJS build of 21.2.0. With it, the cross-build write in the reproduction round-trips, and its output is byte-identical to a same-build write. I also checked a table with an Int32 column and a Dictionary<Utf8, Int16> column: identical bytes, and PyArrow reads the result.

It may also be worth making the writer throw when a type can't be visited, rather than writing an empty body.

Related issues

#61, #377, #56

Lenguaje dominante
TypeScript
Estrellas
112
Forks
23
Merge medio
4 h 13 min
PR fusionados (30 d)
10

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