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=========
Arrow IPC
=========

IPC options
===========

.. doxygenstruct:: arrow::ipc::IpcReadOptions
   :members:

.. doxygenstruct:: arrow::ipc::IpcWriteOptions
   :members:

Reading IPC streams and files
=============================

Blocking API
------------

Use either of these two classes, depending on which IPC format you want
to read.  The file format requires a random-access file, while the stream
format only requires a sequential input stream.

.. doxygenclass:: arrow::ipc::RecordBatchStreamReader
   :members:

.. doxygenclass:: arrow::ipc::RecordBatchFileReader
   :members:

Event-driven API
----------------

To read an IPC stream in event-driven fashion, you must implement a
:class:`~arrow::ipc::Listener` subclass that you will pass to
:class:`~arrow::ipc::StreamDecoder`.

.. doxygenclass:: arrow::ipc::Listener
   :members:

.. doxygenclass:: arrow::ipc::StreamDecoder
   :members:

Statistics
----------

.. doxygenstruct:: arrow::ipc::ReadStats
   :members:

Writing IPC streams and files
=============================

Blocking API
------------

The IPC stream format is only optionally terminated, whereas the IPC file format
must include a terminating footer. Thus a writer of the IPC file format must be
explicitly finalized with :func:`~arrow::ipc::RecordBatchWriter::Close()` or the resulting
file will be corrupt.

.. doxygengroup:: record-batch-writer-factories
   :content-only:

.. doxygenclass:: arrow::ipc::RecordBatchWriter
   :members:

Statistics
----------

.. doxygenstruct:: arrow::ipc::WriteStats
   :members: