SNOW-1873529: Add support for empty semi-structured StructType and ArrayType to ast #2834
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This change adds support for ArrayType and StructType having empty elements/fields in the AST. An ArrayType without an element_type represents a semi-structured Array. A StructType with fields set to None represents a semi-structured OBJECT. This semantics change is gated behind a client-side parameter in snowflake.snowpark.context.
With the new semantics enabled, OBJECTS are handled differently now. Previously semi-structred objects were represented with
MapType(StringType(), StringType())
while structured objects were represented withStructType([...])
. After this change both are represented with StructType and MapType only represents MAP columns.