Support pa.RecordBatch and pa.Schema as dataclass field types (v0.6.11)

_infer_arrow_type now maps pa.RecordBatch and pa.Schema to pa.binary(),
matching the existing serialization/deserialization handling.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: rustyconover

pyproject.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "vgi-rpc"
-version = "0.6.10"
+version = "0.6.11"
 description = "Vector Gateway Interface - RPC framework based on Apache Arrow"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.13"

uv.lock

@@ -504,6 +504,10 @@ def _infer_arrow_type(python_type: object) -> pa.DataType:
             return pa.list_(element_type)
         return pa.list_(pa.string())
 
+    # Types serialized as binary (IPC bytes)
+    if python_type is pa.RecordBatch or python_type is pa.Schema:
+        return pa.binary()
+
     # Simple type mappings
     type_map: dict[type, pa.DataType] = {
         str: pa.string(),