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Closes #22219

This PR adds a new API apply_retention_mask to replace apply_boolean_mask for consistent naming (retentions and deletions). There's no logical changes between the APIs whatsoever.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added retention-mask filtering APIs for tables, columns, and list elements across C++ and Python interfaces.
    • Added validation and documentation for retention masks, including size and boolean-type requirements.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Updated filtering workflows across supported interfaces while preserving existing results and behavior.
  • Refactor

    • Boolean-mask APIs remain available but are deprecated and issue warnings directing callers to retention-mask APIs.
  • Tests

    • Updated filtering, list, Parquet, streaming, and Python test coverage for the new APIs.

Walkthrough

The PR adds retention-mask APIs for C++ and Python, deprecates boolean-mask APIs with compatibility wrappers, and updates native, Python, Java, benchmark, and test call sites.

Changes

Retention-mask API migration

Layer / File(s) Summary
C++ API and implementation
cpp/include/cudf/..., cpp/src/...
Added table and list apply_retention_mask APIs. Deprecated apply_boolean_mask wrappers delegate to the new APIs.
Python binding surface
python/pylibcudf/...
Added retention-mask declarations and wrappers. Deprecated Python boolean-mask APIs emit FutureWarning and delegate to the new APIs.
Native and Python caller migration
cpp/benchmarks/..., cpp/libcudf_streaming/..., java/..., python/cudf/..., python/cudf_polars/...
Replaced boolean-mask calls with retention-mask calls across benchmarks, JNI, cuDF, and cuDF Polars.
Validation coverage
cpp/tests/..., python/pylibcudf/tests/...
Updated filtering and stream-compaction tests to use retention-mask APIs while preserving existing cases and expectations.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to b82d7

The new retention-mask API can accept size-mismatched empty masks or zero-row inputs instead of raising the promised error, creating a bounded correctness risk for callers. This should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

Suggested reviewers: igorpeshansky, pentschev, rjzamora

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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes implement apply_retention_mask, deprecate apply_boolean_mask, and update related documentation, bindings, callers, and tests for issue #22219.
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Inline comments:
In `@cpp/include/cudf/lists/stream_compaction.hpp`:
- Around line 60-68: Update the deprecated apply_boolean_mask declarations in
cpp/include/cudf/lists/stream_compaction.hpp lines 60-68 and
cpp/include/cudf/stream_compaction.hpp lines 220-227 to explicitly document the
boolean_mask parameter, replacing or supplementing the copied
apply_retention_mask documentation so no retention_mask reference remains for
these signatures.
- Around line 45-52: Update the Doxygen comments for the affected public API:
remove the unmatched backtick after the `@p` input parameter reference, and
describe the return value as a std::unique_ptr<column> rather than a table while
preserving the existing list-column behavior.

In `@cpp/include/cudf/stream_compaction.hpp`:
- Around line 203-212: The apply_mask implementation must enforce exact
retention_mask size equality for all inputs, including empty masks and zero-row
input tables. Move the size validation ahead of the empty-mask early return in
detail::apply_mask, preserving the existing filtering behavior only after sizes
match.
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Comment on lines +45 to 52
* @throws cudf::logic_error if @p retention_mask is not a "lists of bools" column
* @throws cudf::logic_error if @p input` and @p retention_mask have different number of rows
*
* @param input The input list column view to be filtered
* @param boolean_mask A nullable list of bools column used to filter `input` elements
* @param retention_mask A nullable list of bools column used to filter `input` elements
* @param stream CUDA stream used for device memory operations and kernel launches
* @param mr Device memory resource used to allocate the returned table's device memory
* @return List column of the same type as `input`, containing filtered list rows

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Correct the public API documentation.

Line 46 has an unmatched backtick after @p input. Line 51 refers to a returned table, but this API returns std::unique_ptr<column>. Correct both descriptions.

As per coding guidelines, public functions in cpp/include/cudf/ require Doxygen documentation.

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In `@cpp/include/cudf/lists/stream_compaction.hpp` around lines 45 - 52, Update
the Doxygen comments for the affected public API: remove the unmatched backtick
after the `@p` input parameter reference, and describe the return value as a
std::unique_ptr<column> rather than a table while preserving the existing
list-column behavior.

Source: Coding guidelines

Comment thread cpp/include/cudf/lists/stream_compaction.hpp
Comment on lines +203 to +212
* @throws cudf::logic_error if `input.num_rows() != retention_mask.size()`.
* @throws cudf::logic_error if @p retention_mask is not `type_id::BOOL8` type.
*
* @param[in] input The input table_view to filter
* @param[in] boolean_mask A nullable column_view of type type_id::BOOL8 used
* @param[in] retention_mask A nullable column_view of type type_id::BOOL8 used
* as a mask to filter the `input`.
* @param[in] stream CUDA stream used for device memory operations and kernel launches
* @param[in] mr Device memory resource used to allocate the returned table's device memory
* @return Table containing copy of all rows of @p input passing
* the filter defined by @p boolean_mask.
* @return Table containing copy of all rows of @p input passing the filter defined by
* @p retention_mask.

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Make the size-validation contract match the implementation.

Line 203 states that every size mismatch raises cudf::logic_error. However, detail::apply_mask in cpp/src/stream_compaction/apply_boolean_mask.cu returns before validation when the mask is empty, and it accepts any mask size when input.num_rows() is zero. A one-row table with an empty mask therefore returns an empty table instead of raising.

Validate exact size equality before the empty-mask shortcut, or document these compatibility exceptions.

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In `@cpp/include/cudf/stream_compaction.hpp` around lines 203 - 212, The
apply_mask implementation must enforce exact retention_mask size equality for
all inputs, including empty masks and zero-row input tables. Move the size
validation ahead of the empty-mask early return in detail::apply_mask,
preserving the existing filtering behavior only after sizes match.

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