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What changes were proposed in this pull request?

4.0.0 provided interim backwards compatibility to custom encoders via AgnosticExpressionPathEncoder in SPARK-49960 pr #50023. As part of that PR AgnosticExpressionPathEncoder was deprecated from the get go with a commitment to remove it in 4.1, this PR covers that tech-debt removal.

Why are the changes needed?

AgnosticEncoder's support encoding on both connect client and classic driver side, #50023 provided a migration path to 4.x with the intention to have software migrate to direct AgnosticEncoder usage (with custom encoders using TransformingEncoder/Codecs).

This PR reduces tech-debt via removing this bridge / migration support code.

Does this PR introduce any user-facing change?

No

How was this patch tested?

1 test was removed alongside the code.

Was this patch authored or co-authored using generative AI tooling?

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JIRA Issue Information

=== Improvement SPARK-54919 ===
Summary: Tech-Debt removal of Expression Path Encoder support
Assignee: None
Status: Open
Affected: ["4.1.0"]


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@hvanhovell @HyukjinKwon @LuciferYang, removing SPARK-49960, apologies for the delay on this.

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