Adding Type Persuasion for Primitive Types

Original from the old repo: https://github.com/Parquet/parquet-mr/pull/410
JIRA: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-2

These changes allow primitive types to be requested as different types than what is stored in the file format using a flag to turn off strict type checking (default is on). Types are cast to the requested type where possible and will suffer precision loss for casting where necessary (e.g. requesting a double as an int).

No performance penalty is imposed for using the type defined in the file type.  A flag exists to 

A 6x6 test case is provided to test conversion between the primitive types.

was that a bug? why are we restricting here?