Feature Request
Implement standard Fory row format support for Swift.
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe
Swift runtime currently lacks standard row format read/write support, so Swift cannot fully interoperate with existing standard row format implementations in Java/C++/Python for row-based random-access data exchange.
Describe the solution you'd like
Add standard row format support in Swift based on docs/specification/row_format_spec.md.
Scope:
- Implement row encode/decode for standard format.
- Implement standard array/map/nested-struct layout handling.
- Support null bitmap semantics, fixed 8-byte field slots, and relative offset+size for variable-width fields.
- Enforce 8-byte alignment and deterministic padding behavior.
- Add cross-language compatibility tests with Java as reference endpoint.
- Add CI coverage for Swift row format tests and interoperability tests.
Out of scope:
Describe alternatives you've considered
Continuing to use only object-serialization paths without standard row format support was considered, but that does not provide row-level random access and does not satisfy cross-language row format interoperability requirements.
Additional context
docs/specification/row_format_spec.md
#3349
#1017
Feature Request
Implement standard Fory row format support for Swift.
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe
Swift runtime currently lacks standard row format read/write support, so Swift cannot fully interoperate with existing standard row format implementations in Java/C++/Python for row-based random-access data exchange.
Describe the solution you'd like
Add standard row format support in Swift based on
docs/specification/row_format_spec.md.Scope:
Out of scope:
Describe alternatives you've considered
Continuing to use only object-serialization paths without standard row format support was considered, but that does not provide row-level random access and does not satisfy cross-language row format interoperability requirements.
Additional context
docs/specification/row_format_spec.md#3349
#1017