Parquet proto writer de-nest Protobuf wrapper classes
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Description
Existing Parquet protobuf writer support preserves the structure of any Protobuf Message objects. This works well in most cases. However, when dealing with [Protobuf wrapper messages](https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/master/src/google/protobuf/wrappers.proto), users may prefer directly writing the de-nested value into the Parquet files, for ease of querying them directly (in query engine such as Hive/Presto).
Proposal:
- Implement a control flag, e.g., enableDenestingWrappers, to control whether or not to denest Protobuf wrapper classes.
- When this flag is set to true, write the Protobuf wrapper classes as single primitive fields, based on the type of the wrapped **value** field.
|Protobuf Type|Parquet Type|
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|-|-|-|
|BoolValue|boolean|
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|BytesValue|binary|
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|DoubleValue|double|
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|FloatValue|float|
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|Int32Value|int64 (32-bit, signed)|
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|Int64Value|int64 (64-bit, signed)|
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|StringValue|binary (string)|
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|UInt32Value|int64 (32-bit, unsigned)|
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|UInt64Value|int64 (64-bit, unsigned)|
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**Reporter**: [Ying Xu](https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=yxu-apache)
**Note**: *This issue was originally created as [PARQUET-1595](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-1595). Please see the [migration documentation](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-2502) for further details.*
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