ARROW-11706: [JS] Better BigInt compatibility check

[marcprux]

Check for whether BigInt64ArrayAvailable and BigUint64ArrayAvailable are available, rather than just BigIntAvailable. Recent versions of JavaScriptCore/WebKit in Safari support BigInt but do not support BigInt64Array, and so anything that relies on BigInt64Array will fail despite BigIntAvailable being true.

[github-actions]

Thanks for opening a pull request!

Could you open an issue for this pull request on JIRA?
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW

Then could you also rename pull request title in the following format?

ARROW-${JIRA_ID}: [${COMPONENT}] ${SUMMARY}

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[marcprux]

The manifestation of this issue can be seen when trying to run the following within Safari on a table that contains bigints:

RecordBatchJSONWriter.writeAll(table).toString(true)

message: "BigUint64Array is not available in this environment"
  BigUint64ArrayUnavailableError
  BigUint64ArrayUnavailable
  bignumToString
  bigNumsToStrings
  generatorResume@[native code]
  performIteration@[native code]
  visitInt
  visit
  map@[native code]
  recordBatchToJSON
  close
  finish
  global code

[marcprux]

See also: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190800

[dianaclarke]

Thanks for the pull request!

I've created a Jira ticket for you:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-11706

If you could update the PR subject to ARROW-11706: [JS] Better BigInt compatibility check, you might have better luck catching the eye of JS Arrow reviewers (which I am not).

Thanks again & stay safe!

[github-actions]

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-11706

[kou]

@trxcllnt Can we merge this?

@marcprux Could you tell us your JIRA account? I want to assign you to https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-11706 .

[trxcllnt]

@kou Yeah, it looks good to me 👍

@marcprux we strongly recommend against using the JSON format outside the Arrow CI integration tests, and may remove the JSON IPC classes from the npm packages soon as part of slimming down the ArrowJS bundle sizes.

[domoritz]

@trxcllnt said that instead of this change, we should remove the JSON IPC classes from the npm packages and only have them in the integration tests. Can we close this pull request?