[core] Split blob-as-descriptor into read-blob-as-descriptor and write-blob-from-descriptor
#7123
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Purpose
There are two main reasons for this change:
blob-as-descriptoris highly ambiguous during writes—it actually means that the input for writing is a descriptor, not that the blob itself is being written as a descriptor.A single configuration cannot adequately serve both use cases. I believe, the most common scenario should be:
write-blob-from-descriptor=trueso that data is loaded at write time which is extremely memory-efficient. This maybe can be set to default true, in fact, there has been discussion on this topic: [api] Set blob-as-descriptor default to true #7021read-blob-as-descriptor=falsesince in most read scenariosin some case, we need the original raw data rather than a descriptor.Tests
API and Format
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