[GitHub] [incubator-iceberg] rdblue opened a new pull request #627: Update indexing to handle nested lists

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rdblue opened a new pull request #627: Update indexing to handle nested lists
URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-iceberg/pull/627
 
 
   This updates how `Schema` fields are indexed.
   
   Previously, the visit method maintained a list of parent field names in each visitor, and the `IndexByName` visitor used these fields to create qualified field names. But the visitor did not add "element", "key", and "value" parent names, which resulted in duplicate names when indexing, for example, a list of lists.
   
   The purpose of omitting "element", "key", and "value" from parent field names was to avoid forcing users to handle unnamed structures. For example, leaving out "element" from names for `points: struct<x double, y double>` results in fields "points.x" and "points.y" (and the nested struct as "points.element") instead of "points.element.x" and "points.element.y".
   
   This updates how element and value names are skipped, by only skipping the names if a map value or list element is a nested struct. That way, a list of lists will correctly add an "element" level when processing the outer list's element. This also updates indexing so that "key" is always used so that key and value fields will not conflict.
   
   This also moves the parent field names into `IndexByName` because they are only used in that class.

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