The generic filesystem tests assert that reading a directory should fail. If directories are implemented as described in ARROW-15114 this would be expensive to implement (at least in the near future), as it would require two roundtrips to the service to fetch the object metadata.

I would rather change the generic tests to allow reading directories, and if we find a cheaper way to fix this later we can restore the tests.

Reporter: Carlos O'Ryan / @coryan
Assignee: Carlos O'Ryan / @coryan

Related issues:

• [C++] Implement generic filesystem tests for GCS (is a child of)

PRs and other links:

• GitHub Pull Request #11962

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