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Add option to FlightDataEncoder to always send dictionaries #4895

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Per #3389 dictionaries are not supported over flight and right now they are cast into their underlying value type array.

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In lieu of the solution described on #3389 to provide initial support for dictionary arrays we can have opt in behavior to always send dictionaries with each record batch, replacing the previous

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