Support streaming "hint_sorted" metadata propagation

[rjzamora]

Adds streaming support for MapFunction("hint_sorted") by preserving or attaching Ordering metadata when the hint can be represented safely in the streaming runtime.

For now, this supports the narrow single-partition case and passes through existing compatible Ordering metadata. Multi-partition boundary extraction is left to the follow-up work in #22526.

Partially addresses #21039.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added streaming support for sort hints, preserving data while exposing ordering information for downstream processing.
  • Improved recognition and handling of sortedness across partitioning levels.

• Bug Fixes

  • Corrected metadata propagation for grouped, windowed, single-input, and multi-input streaming operations.
  • Improved processing of empty inputs and child data chunks.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for sort hints, ordering metadata, channel forwarding, partitioning, and conflicting sort keys.

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Changes

Streaming metadata flow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Metadata-aware chunk evaluation python/cudf_polars/cudf_polars/streaming/actor_graph/utils.py, python/cudf_polars/cudf_polars/streaming/actor_graph/nodes.py, python/cudf_polars/cudf_polars/streaming/actor_graph/groupby.py, python/cudf_polars/cudf_polars/streaming/actor_graph/over.py	Chunk evaluation now uses precomputed ordering metadata. Node and actor paths pass input metadata into chunkwise evaluation. Child chunk conversion uses leading ordering metadata.
hint_sorted actor wiring python/cudf_polars/cudf_polars/streaming/actor_graph/hint_sorted.py, python/cudf_polars/cudf_polars/streaming/actor_graph/__init__.py	The new hint_sorted actor normalizes sort options, derives safe metadata for supported layouts, forwards chunks, and registers its module on import.
Metadata tests python/cudf_polars/tests/streaming/test_metadata.py	Tests cover hint_sorted metadata extraction, ordering metadata, strict partitioning by level, and orderedness checks for flat, inter-rank, and local layouts.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 7470c

The change narrowly propagates ordering metadata for the supported streaming case, and the supplied evidence shows no actionable merge-blocking risk. Remaining follow-up is limited to documenting the ordering-key contract and optionally hardening option-shape validation.

Suggested reviewers: nirandaperera, vyasr, wence-

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❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
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✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: adding streaming hint_sorted metadata propagation.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description accurately explains streaming hint_sorted support, metadata handling, and the scope limitation to single-partition inputs.
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In `@python/cudf_polars/cudf_polars/streaming/actor_graph/utils.py`:
- Around line 1582-1605: The _leading_order_keys function must not infer
per-chunk sortedness from partitioning.inter_rank when partitioning.local is a
non-order scheme. Use the local OrderScheme exclusively, and only fall back to
inter_rank when local is "inherit"; preserve _apply_ordering_metadata behavior
for the resulting keys. Add a regression test covering ordered inter_rank
metadata with non-order local metadata and verify sortedness is not marked.

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[Matt711]

Added a couple questions, mostly looks good to me

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python/cudf_polars/cudf_polars/streaming/actor_graph/utils.py (1)

1361-1372: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Document the is_ordered key-order contract.

is_ordered checks only scheme.orderings[0] against order_keys. This is correct only when order_keys matches the keys sequence originally passed to NormalizedPartitioning.from_keys, because _matching_order_scheme reorders the matched ordering to index 0 based on that original keys sequence. If a caller passes a different order_keys sequence than the one used to build the NormalizedPartitioning, the check can silently miss a valid ordering that exists at a different index in scheme.orderings.

Add a note to the docstring stating this precondition, so future callers do not pass mismatched key sequences.

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In `@python/cudf_polars/cudf_polars/streaming/actor_graph/utils.py` around lines
1361 - 1372, Update the is_ordered docstring to document that order_keys must
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because the implementation checks only scheme.orderings[0]; state that passing a
different sequence may miss a valid ordering.

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In `@python/cudf_polars/cudf_polars/streaming/actor_graph/utils.py`:
- Around line 1361-1372: Update the is_ordered docstring to document that
order_keys must match the original keys sequence supplied to
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scheme.orderings[0]; state that passing a different sequence may miss a valid
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