Add variant extraction review coverage

Signed-off-by: Niranjan Artal <nartal@nvidia.com>

Author: nartal1

integration_tests/src/main/python/variant_test.py

@@ -198,6 +198,7 @@ def write_data(spark):
             "try_variant_get(v, '$.smin', 'bigint') AS smin_as_bigint",
             "try_variant_get(v, '$.smax', 'smallint') AS smax",
             "try_variant_get(v, '$.imin', 'int') AS imin",
+            "try_variant_get(v, '$.imin', 'bigint') AS imin_as_bigint",
             "try_variant_get(v, '$.imax', 'int') AS imax",
             "try_variant_get(v, '$.lmin', 'bigint') AS lmin",
             "try_variant_get(v, '$.lmax', 'bigint') AS lmax",
@@ -207,6 +208,23 @@ def write_data(spark):
         conf=_variant_parquet_conf)
 
 
+@incompat
+@pytest.mark.skipif(is_before_spark_400(), reason='VariantType is available in Spark 4.0+')
+def test_parquet_variant_pass_through_filter_project(spark_tmp_path):
+    data_path = spark_tmp_path + '/VARIANT_PASS_THROUGH_PARQUET'
+    with_cpu_session(lambda spark: _write_variant_parquet(spark, data_path))
+
+    assert_gpu_and_cpu_are_equal_collect(
+        lambda spark: spark.read.parquet(data_path)
+            .selectExpr("v", "try_variant_get(v, '$.x', 'int') AS x")
+            .filter("x IS NULL OR x >= 7")
+            .selectExpr(
+                "try_variant_get(v, '$.n.inner', 'string') AS inner",
+                "try_variant_get(v, '$.m', 'bigint') AS m")
+            .orderBy("inner", "m"),
+        conf=_variant_parquet_conf)
+
+
 @incompat
 @pytest.mark.skipif(is_before_spark_400(), reason='VariantType is available in Spark 4.0+')
 def test_parquet_variant_try_get_before_shuffle(spark_tmp_path):

sql-plugin/src/main/java/com/nvidia/spark/rapids/RapidsHostColumnVectorCore.java

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2020-2021, NVIDIA CORPORATION.
+ * Copyright (c) 2020-2026, NVIDIA CORPORATION.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

sql-plugin/src/main/scala/com/nvidia/spark/rapids/literals.scala

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2019-2025, NVIDIA CORPORATION.
+ * Copyright (c) 2019-2026, NVIDIA CORPORATION.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.