fix(parquet): audit decode accepts Utf8View like the data path

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Epic #745, wave 0, item 1 — the one live bug the structural review found.

RFC 0021 §3.1 gave the data path view-tolerant accessors (StrCol); the audit path kept bare as_string_opt at three sites, so a Utf8View-encoded audit batch hard-errored on the audit path only — a fix that had landed on one twin. The audit accessors now share StrCol (pub(crate)), which is also the direction of the wave-2 decode unification.

Stated behavior change: the audit path now accepts view-encoded input it previously rejected — that is the fix, aligned with the data path's RFC 0021 posture.

Invariants: §3.8/§3.9 reader tolerance is what this strengthens; the required-NULL and missing-column rules are unchanged and covered by the existing suite. Regression test: audit_events_decode_from_utf8view_batches casts every Utf8 column of a valid batch to Utf8View and asserts decode equality.

Checks: fmt, workspace clippy -D warnings, full cargo test -p ourios-parquet (114+58 green).

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved audit data decoding for string fields.
  • Added support for both standard UTF-8 and UTF-8 view-encoded data.
  • Ensured string lists and optional string values decode consistently across supported formats.

• Tests

  • Added coverage confirming UTF-8 view data produces the same results as standard UTF-8 data.

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The audit reader now decodes string columns through shared StrCol logic. This supports both Utf8 and Utf8View arrays. A test compares decoded events from both encodings.

Changes

Audit Utf8View support

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shared string accessor visibility crates/ourios-parquet/src/reader.rs	StrCol, try_new, len, and get now have pub(crate) visibility for reuse by the audit reader.
Audit string decoding integration crates/ourios-parquet/src/audit_reader.rs	Required strings, optional strings, and optional string lists now use StrCol. A test verifies identical decoding for Utf8 and Utf8View batches.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to abc81

The PR makes audit decoding accept Utf8View input, with formatting, clippy, and parquet tests passing. A nested list-valued Utf8View regression case remains untested, but no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: audit Parquet decoding now accepts Utf8View input like the data path.
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In `@crates/ourios-parquet/src/audit_reader.rs`:
- Around line 1437-1450: Extend the schema/column conversion near the existing
`Utf8` handling to recursively convert `LIST<Utf8>` child values to `Utf8View`,
preserving the list structure and nullability so non-NULL compaction input-file
lists decode correctly. Add a colocated unit test covering
`optional_string_list` with a `StringViewArray`, asserting it produces the same
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🟡 Changes recommended

The new regression test does not exercise the updated LIST<STRING> (compaction_input_files) decode path with Utf8View list elements, leaving one modified accessor unverified.

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Pull request overview

This PR fixes an audit-path decoding bug in ourios-parquet by making the audit reader accept Arrow Utf8View string arrays (matching the existing data-path tolerance) and adds a regression test for view-encoded audit batches.

Changes:

• Exposed the existing StrCol accessor as pub(crate) so both data and audit decode paths can accept Utf8 and Utf8View.
• Replaced audit-reader string conversions that previously required Utf8 with StrCol-based decoding.
• Added a regression unit test asserting audit-event decode equivalence between Utf8 and Utf8View batches.

File summaries

File	Description
crates/ourios-parquet/src/reader.rs	Makes StrCol and its accessors pub(crate) so the audit reader can reuse the view-tolerant string accessor.
crates/ourios-parquet/src/audit_reader.rs	Switches string/list-string decoding to use StrCol and adds a regression test for Utf8View audit batches.

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🟢 Approval recommended

The change is narrowly scoped to reusing an existing view-tolerant accessor and adds a targeted regression test that exercises all updated audit string decode sites.

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