[Kernel] Add type widening to supported table features #3656
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Description
Allow reading and writing to tables that have the type widening table features enabled (both preview and stable table feature).
Reading:
Writing:
How was this patch tested?
Added read integration tests.
Tests are based on golden tables. Generating the tables requires Spark 4.0, due to spark master cross-compilation being broken, the table generation code is not included here.
The following steps where used to generate the tables.
type-widening
table:type-widening-nested
table:Does this PR introduce any user-facing changes?
Yes, it's now possible to read from and write to delta tables with type widening enabled using kernel.