fix: Resolve Bazel external repository loading and Python type registration errors

Author: esafak

.ijwb/.bazelproject

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+directories:
+  .
+
+# Automatically includes all relevant targets under the 'directories' above
+derive_targets_from_directories: true
+
+targets:
+  # If source code isn't resolving, add additional targets that compile it here
+
+additional_languages:
+  # Uncomment any additional languages you want supported
+  # android
+  # dart
+  # go
+  # javascript
+  # kotlin
+  # python
+  # scala
+  # typescript

ci/test-arm64-ci.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+
+IMAGE_NAME="quay.io/pypa/manylinux_2_28_aarch64"
+
+# Enable BuildKit
+export DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1
+
+# Create cache volumes if they don't exist
+docker volume create --name fory_bazel_cache >/dev/null
+docker volume create --name fory_pip_cache >/dev/null
+docker volume create --name fory_usr_local >/dev/null
+docker volume create --name fory_yum_cache >/dev/null
+
+echo "Running build in container..."
+# Mount the Bazel cache and set the BAZEL_OPTS environment variable to use it
+docker run --rm --platform linux/arm64 \
+    -v fory_yum_cache:/var/cache/yum \
+    -v fory_bazel_cache:/root/.cache/bazel \
+    -v fory_pip_cache:/root/.cache/pip \
+    -v fory_usr_local:/usr/local \
+    -e BAZEL_OPTS="--output_user_root=/root/.cache/bazel" \
+    -w /workspace -v "$(pwd)":/workspace "$IMAGE_NAME" bash -c "
+set -ex
+# Install dependencies required by the build scripts
+yum install -y git sudo wget which
+# The git repository is mounted from the host, so we need to mark it as safe for git commands
+git config --global --add safe.directory /workspace
+
+# The manylinux image has multiple python versions. Instead of manipulating PATH,
+# which can be tricky with subshells, we will create symlinks in /usr/local/bin,
+# which is in the default system PATH. We are using Python 3.8.
+# Use -f to overwrite existing symlinks if any
+ln -s -f /opt/python/cp38-cp38/bin/python /usr/local/bin/python
+ln -s -f /opt/python/cp38-cp38/bin/pip /usr/local/bin/pip
+ln -s -f /opt/python/cp38-cp38/bin/python3 /usr/local/bin/python3
+ln -s -f /opt/python/cp38-cp38/bin/pip3 /usr/local/bin/pip3
+
+./ci/deploy.sh install_pyarrow
+pip3 install Cython wheel pytest setuptools -U
+# Install Bazel using the new Python-based system
+python ./ci/run_ci.py cpp --install-deps-only
+# Run Python CI tasks
+python ./ci/run_ci.py python
+"
+echo "Build completed. Check ./dist directory for wheels"

python/core

@@ -54,7 +54,12 @@ def __init__(self, attrs=None):
             bazel_args += ["//:cp_fory_so"]
             # Ensure Windows path compatibility
             cwd_path = os.path.normpath(project_dir)
-            print(f"Running bazel with cwd={cwd_path}: {' '.join(bazel_args)}")
+            # Force Bazel to run a sync first to ensure repositories are loaded
+            sync_args = ["bazel", "sync", "--configure"]
+            print(f"Running bazel sync with cwd={cwd_path}: {' '.join(sync_args)}")
+            subprocess.check_call(sync_args, cwd=cwd_path)
+            
+            print(f"Running bazel build with cwd={cwd_path}: {' '.join(bazel_args)}")
             subprocess.check_call(bazel_args, cwd=cwd_path)
 
     def has_ext_modules(self):