Troubleshooting

A Standard Row peer cannot read Compact Row bytes

Compact Row is a Java-only row family. Use Standard Row on Java, Python, C++, and Rust for shared bytes.

A field lookup fails

Verify that the reader uses the same schema and field type as the encoded row. Cache typed field handles only for rows that share that schema.

A nested value appears to require full deserialization

Use the row, array, and map accessors directly. Call the runtime encoder's object reconstruction API only for the subtree that must become an object.