[SHARING][VARIANT] Add variant table feature to sharing client #3549
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Which Delta project/connector is this regarding?
Description
adds variant table feature as a supported table feature. Because delta-spark already can read variants, support comes mostly for free
cross tests with Spark 3.5 and 4.0 in the "sharing" package because we require spark 4.0 to create variants.
How was this patch tested?
added UTs for the streaming and non-streaming case
tested
with both
-DsparkVersion=master
and-DsparkVersoin=latest
Does this PR introduce any user-facing changes?