chore: remove legacy REST API version shim for servers pre-2.4 #1824

Summary

Remove the compatibility shim that supports connecting to Tableau Server versions that predate REST API 2.4 (i.e., Tableau Server 10.0 and earlier, released before 2017).

Background

server.py currently has:

_PRODUCT_TO_REST_VERSION = {
    "10.0": "2.3",
    "9.3": "2.2",
    ...
}
minimum_supported_server_version = "2.3"
default_server_version = "2.4"  # first version that dropped the legacy auth endpoint

The _get_legacy_version() method hits /auth?format=xml — a pre-2.4 endpoint — because servers that old don't support the standard /serverinfo REST API endpoint. _determine_highest_version() falls back to this when serverInfo returns a 404.

What to remove

• _PRODUCT_TO_REST_VERSION dict
• _get_legacy_version() method
• The two except branches in _determine_highest_version() that call _get_legacy_version()
• Raise minimum_supported_server_version to "2.4" (or "3.0" — see below)
• Update default_server_version to match

Impact on users

None, unless they are connecting to Tableau Server 10.0 (released 2016) or earlier. Tableau Server 10.x reached end of life in 2019. All currently-supported Tableau Server versions use REST API 3.x.

Note: the @api(version="2.x") decorators on endpoint methods are minimum version requirements, not upper bounds — they are unaffected by this change and no endpoint methods are removed.

Decision needed

Should minimum_supported_server_version be raised to "2.4" (first version with /serverinfo) or "3.0" (Tableau Server 2018.1, 6+ years old)? The code change is identical either way; the difference is only the documented policy.