feat: support FixedSizeList<Struct> #5593
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Prior to this commit, FixedSizeList was only supported with primitive element types (e.g., FSL for vectors). This adds structural encoding support for FSL, enabling use cases like fixed-size arrays of bounding boxes, coordinate tuples, or other structured data.
Key changes:
FixedSizeListStructuralEncoderthat encodes FSL validity to rep/def and delegates child encoding to the struct encoderStructuralFixedSizeListSchedulerthat scales row ranges by the FSL dimension when scheduling readsStructuralFixedSizeListDecoderthat reconstructs FSL arrays from child data and rep/def validityA key challenge is "garbage filtering": unlike variable-length lists which can omit children under null entries, FSL children always exist. When an FSL row is null, any nested list-like types within its children contain undefined "garbage" data. The encoder normalizes these to empty null lists before encoding.