Add protocol tests for sparse list primitives #2333
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Background
What do these changes do?
Adds a list of sparse shorts to existing sparse list tests
Why are they important?
In some languages, like Java, Strings are naturally nullable and thus handling sparse collections of String values is straightforward, but sparse collection of values with primitives (such as shorts) may introduce complexities.
Testing
Ran these tests to verify that serde in a language implementation was broken, and then fixed the implementation and verified that tests pass.
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