ARROW-4558: [C++][Flight] Implement gRPC customizations without UB

cpp/src/arrow/flight/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -60,9 +60,8 @@ set_source_files_properties(${FLIGHT_GENERATED_PROTO_FILES} PROPERTIES GENERATED
 
 set(ARROW_FLIGHT_SRCS
     client.cc
-    Flight.pb.cc
-    Flight.grpc.pb.cc
     internal.cc
+    protocol.cc
     serialization-internal.cc
     server.cc
     types.cc)

cpp/src/arrow/flight/client.cc

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 // under the License.
 
 #include "arrow/flight/client.h"
+#include "arrow/flight/protocol.h"
 
 #include <memory>
 #include <sstream>
@@ -33,8 +34,6 @@
 #include "arrow/type.h"
 #include "arrow/util/logging.h"
 
-#include "arrow/flight/Flight.grpc.pb.h"
-#include "arrow/flight/Flight.pb.h"
 #include "arrow/flight/internal.h"
 #include "arrow/flight/serialization-internal.h"
 
@@ -74,13 +73,8 @@ class FlightStreamReader : public RecordBatchReader {
       return Status::OK();
     }
 
-    // For customizing read path for better memory/serialization efficiency
-    // XXX this cast is undefined behavior
-    auto custom_reader = reinterpret_cast<grpc::ClientReader<FlightData>*>(stream_.get());
-
-    // Explicitly specify the override to invoke - otherwise compiler
-    // may invoke through vtable (not updated by reinterpret_cast)
-    if (custom_reader->grpc::ClientReader<FlightData>::Read(&data)) {
+    // Pretend to be pb::FlightData and intercept in SerializationTraits
+    if (stream_->Read(reinterpret_cast<pb::FlightData*>(&data))) {
       std::unique_ptr<ipc::Message> message;
 
       // Validate IPC message
@@ -127,12 +121,9 @@ class FlightPutWriter::FlightPutWriterImpl : public ipc::RecordBatchWriter {
   Status WriteRecordBatch(const RecordBatch& batch, bool allow_64bit = false) override {
     IpcPayload payload;
     RETURN_NOT_OK(ipc::internal::GetRecordBatchPayload(batch, pool_, &payload));
-    // XXX this cast is undefined behavior
-    auto custom_writer = reinterpret_cast<grpc::ClientWriter<IpcPayload>*>(writer_.get());
-    // Explicitly specify the override to invoke - otherwise compiler
-    // may invoke through vtable (not updated by reinterpret_cast)
-    if (!custom_writer->grpc::ClientWriter<IpcPayload>::Write(payload,
-                                                              grpc::WriteOptions())) {
+
+    if (!writer_->Write(*reinterpret_cast<const pb::FlightData*>(&payload),
+                        grpc::WriteOptions())) {
       std::stringstream ss;
       ss << "Could not write record batch to stream: "
          << rpc_->context.debug_error_string();

cpp/src/arrow/flight/customize_protobuf.h

@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+// or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+// distributed with this work for additional information
+// regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+// to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+// "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+// with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+// software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+// "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+// KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+// specific language governing permissions and limitations
+// under the License.
+
+#pragma once
+
+#include <limits>
+#include <memory>
+
+#include "grpcpp/impl/codegen/config_protobuf.h"
+#undef GRPC_OPEN_SOURCE_PROTO
+#include "grpcpp/impl/codegen/proto_utils.h"
+
+namespace arrow {
+namespace ipc {
+namespace internal {
+
+struct IpcPayload;
+
+}  // namespace internal
+}  // namespace ipc
+
+namespace flight {
+
+struct FlightData;
+
+namespace protocol {
+
+class FlightData;
+
+}  // namespace protocol
+}  // namespace flight
+}  // namespace arrow
+
+namespace grpc {
+
+using arrow::flight::FlightData;
+using arrow::ipc::internal::IpcPayload;
+
+class ByteBuffer;
+class Status;
+
+Status FlightDataSerialize(const IpcPayload& msg, ByteBuffer* out, bool* own_buffer);
+Status FlightDataDeserialize(ByteBuffer* buffer, FlightData* out);
+
+// This class provides a protobuf serializer. It translates between protobuf
+// objects and grpc_byte_buffers. More information about SerializationTraits can
+// be found in include/grpcpp/impl/codegen/serialization_traits.h.
+template <class T>
+class SerializationTraits<
+    T, typename std::enable_if<
+           std::is_base_of<grpc::protobuf::Message, T>::value &&
+           !std::is_same<arrow::flight::protocol::FlightData, T>::value>::type> {
+ public:
+  static Status Serialize(const grpc::protobuf::Message& msg, ByteBuffer* bb,
+                          bool* own_buffer) {
+    return GenericSerialize<ProtoBufferWriter, T>(msg, bb, own_buffer);
+  }
+
+  static Status Deserialize(ByteBuffer* buffer, grpc::protobuf::Message* msg) {
+    return GenericDeserialize<ProtoBufferReader, T>(buffer, msg);
+  }
+};
+
+template <class T>
+class SerializationTraits<T, typename std::enable_if<std::is_same<
+                                 arrow::flight::protocol::FlightData, T>::value>::type> {
+ public:
+  static Status Serialize(const grpc::protobuf::Message& msg, ByteBuffer* bb,
+                          bool* own_buffer) {
+    return FlightDataSerialize(*reinterpret_cast<const IpcPayload*>(&msg), bb,
+                               own_buffer);
+  }
+
+  static Status Deserialize(ByteBuffer* buffer, grpc::protobuf::Message* msg) {
+    return FlightDataDeserialize(buffer, reinterpret_cast<FlightData*>(msg));
+  }
+};
+
+}  // namespace grpc

cpp/src/arrow/flight/internal.cc

@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@
 
 #include "arrow/flight/internal.h"
 
+#include "arrow/flight/customize_protobuf.h"
+
 #include <memory>
 #include <string>
 #include <utility>

cpp/src/arrow/flight/internal.h

@@ -26,8 +26,7 @@
 #include "arrow/ipc/writer.h"
 #include "arrow/util/macros.h"
 
-#include "arrow/flight/Flight.grpc.pb.h"
-#include "arrow/flight/Flight.pb.h"
+#include "arrow/flight/protocol.h"
 #include "arrow/flight/types.h"
 
 namespace arrow {

cpp/src/arrow/flight/protocol.cc

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+// or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+// distributed with this work for additional information
+// regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+// to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+// "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+// with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+// software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+// "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+// KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+// specific language governing permissions and limitations
+
+#include "arrow/flight/protocol.h"
+
+#include "arrow/flight/Flight.grpc.pb.cc"  // NOLINT
+#include "arrow/flight/Flight.pb.cc"       // NOLINT

cpp/src/arrow/flight/protocol.h

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+// or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+// distributed with this work for additional information
+// regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+// to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+// "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+// with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+// software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+// "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+// KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+// specific language governing permissions and limitations
+
+#pragma once
+
+// Need to include this first to get our gRPC customizations
+#include "arrow/flight/customize_protobuf.h"
+
+#include "arrow/flight/Flight.grpc.pb.h"
+#include "arrow/flight/Flight.pb.h"