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[Flight] Support Blobs from Server to Client (#28755)
We currently support Blobs when passing from Client to Server so this adds it in the other direction for parity - when `enableFlightBinary` is enabled. We intentionally only support the `Blob` type to pass-through, not subtype `File`. That's because passing additional meta data like filename might be an accidental leak. You can still pass a `File` through but it'll appear as a `Blob` on the other side. It's also not possible to create a faithful File subclass in all environments without it actually being backed by a file. This implementation isn't great but at least it works. It creates a few indirections. This is because we need to be able to asynchronously emit the buffers but we have to "block" the parent object from resolving while it's loading. Ideally, we should be able to create the Blob on the client early and then stream in it lazily. Because the Blob API doesn't guarantee that the data is available synchronously. Unfortunately, the native APIs doesn't have this. We could implement custom versions of all the data read APIs but then the blobs still wouldn't work with native APIs. So we just have to wait until Blob accepts a stream in the constructor. We should be able to stream each chunk early in the protocol though even though we can't unblock the parent until they've all loaded. I didn't do this yet mostly because of code structure and I'm lazy. DiffTrain build for [cbb6f2b](cbb6f2b)
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