I'm writing a library for converting from Arrow IPC stream format to Arrow IPC file format, Parquet, and others. For the Arrow -> Arrow conversion I would love to be able to check that the file that has been written is using compression, and what compression it is using.

It's tricky since compression is per-buffer, and only applied if the compression actually saves space, but it would be nice to be able to access what compression was attempted. Maybe in metadata? I'd love thoughts on how this could work and if it's something that the project would be interested in having.

Thanks!!