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# HTTP GET Arrow Data: Simple Python Server Example with `http.server`

This directory contains a minimal example of an HTTP server implemented in Python using the built-in [`http.server`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/http.server.html) module. The server:
1. Creates a list of record batches and populates it with synthesized data.
2. Listens for HTTP GET requests from clients.
3. Upon receiving a request, sends an HTTP 200 response with the body containing an Arrow IPC stream of record batches.

To run this example:

```sh
pip install pyarrow
python server.py
```

> [!NOTE]  
> This example implements [chunked transfer encoding](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunked_transfer_encoding) manually. Other servers may implement chunked transfer encoding automatically at the cost of an undesirable new layer of buffering. Arrow IPC streams already offer a natural way of chunking large amounts of tabular data. It's not a general requirement, but in this example each chunk corresponds to one Arrow record batch.