Prefetch column names in bulk cursor adaptor.
If the remote end of a bulk cursor died, then it was possible
for getColumnNames() to return null, violating the invariant
that it never returns null. As a result, the application could
crash in strange ways due to an NPE.
Since we are often interested in the column names anyhow, prefetch
them when setting up the bulk cursor adaptor. This way, a
remote cursor will never return null even if the remote end died.
It is possible for an application to continue to use a remote cursor
even after the provider has died unless it needs to requery it
for some reason. Of course at that point, bad things will
happen... but usually the app is better prepared for it than
if it just randomly encounters a null array of column names.
This change also optimizes the bulk cursor adaptor to return the
initial cursor window back to the client, potentially saving
an extra RPC. Because the communication protocol between
the CursorToBulkCursorAdaptor and BulkCursorToCursorAdaptor was
getting a little hard to follow, introduced a new type called
BulkCursorDescriptor to hold all of the necessary parameters.
Deleted several unnecessary IBulkCursor methods that are never
actually called remotely.
Bug: 6168809
Change-Id: I9aaf6f067c6434a575e2fdbf678243d5ad10755f
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