Clear field meta data during reading so that it can be processed #2949
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This PR aims to demonstrate the issue described in LanceDB/lance#2947, where a dataset containing a nested field with associated metadata can be written successfully but cannot be read correctly by Lance.
In this PR, I propose a quick fix that clears the field metadata when reading from the manifest. However, this approach doesn't seem to be a perfect solution to the issue. I also attempted to remove the field metadata right before the
decode
method’sStructArray::try_new
call, but there appear to be multiple places with similar issues, so I opted to clear the metadata once when reading the field from the manifest instead.It would be great if we have better solution to this issue. Thanks.