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[Variant] Support composite typed_value values in VariantArray::try_value #10620

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Is your feature request related to a problem or challenge?

VariantArray::try_value can materialize primitive typed_value values but not legal shredded Struct or List values.

#10597 prevents these values from being silently reported as Variant::Null, but callers still cannot retrieve the complete row as a Variant without unshredding the array first.

Describe the solution you'd like

Support reconstructing perfectly and partially shredded Struct/List values in try_value.

This likely requires an owned or COW representation because composite values must be encoded into new buffers, while Variant currently borrows its encoded bytes.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Call unshred_variant on the complete array before accessing individual values. This works but requires array-level reconstruction when only one row may be needed.

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