[python client] backwards incompatibility issue with v3.42.04

[itsmunishbhardwaj]

H2O version, Operating System and Environment
(e.g. 3.38.0.1, Mac OS w/ M1 chip, R v4.0.1). Please let us know if you're running on K8s/Hadoop and if so, what version.

H2O Version: v3.42.0.4
OS: Ubuntu 22.04
Environement: http://jenkins.h2o.local:8080/job/h2o-ai-cloud-tests/job/release-tests/job/environments/job/for_mlops_v0.67.0_and_below/job/mlops%252F0.67.0/25/allure/#suites/7e3daadf797fdaa5207fb79d3cce47ba/bc67e7510347fbd/

Actual behavior

when I try to use upload_file method for h2o version 3.42.04. I hit the following error:

h2o.exceptions.H2OResponseError: Server error water.exceptions.H2OIllegalArgumentException:
  Error: Unknown parameter: force_col_types
  Request: POST /3/Parse
    data: {'destination_frame': 'Key_Frame__upload_814bc7e66ebcc459c9312a7b66974f48.hex', 'parse_type': 'CSV', 'separator': '44', 'check_header': '1', 'number_columns': '21', 'chunk_size': '4194304', 'delete_on_done': 'True', 'blocking': 'False', 'column_types': '["String","Enum","Numeric","Enum","Enum","Numeric","Enum","Enum","Enum","Enum","Enum","Enum","Enum","Enum","Enum","Enum","Enum","Enum","Numeric","Numeric","Enum"]', 'force_col_types': 'False', 'single_quotes': 'False', 'escapechar': '0', 'column_names': '["customerID","gender","SeniorCitizen","Partner","Dependents","tenure","PhoneService","MultipleLines","InternetService","OnlineSecurity","OnlineBackup","DeviceProtection","TechSupport","StreamingTV","StreamingMovies","Contract","PaperlessBilling","PaymentMethod","MonthlyCharges","TotalCharges","Churn"]', 'source_frames': '["upload_814bc7e66ebcc459c9312a7b66974f48"]'}

Expected behavior
uploading a file using the python client should work.

Steps to reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior (with working code on a sample dataset, if possible):

1. using python client create h2o3 instance on cloud-dev aiem: https://cloud-dev.h2o.dev/aiengines
2. create the instance using v3.42.04
3. upload any dataset to it
4. you should see the following error h2o.exceptions.H2OResponseError: Server error water.exceptions.H2OIllegalArgumentException:

Upload logs
http://jenkins.h2o.local:8080/job/h2o-ai-cloud-tests/job/release-tests/job/environments/job/for_mlops_v0.67.0_and_below/job/mlops%252F0.67.0/25/allure/#suites/7e3daadf797fdaa5207fb79d3cce47ba/bc67e7510347fbd/

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Additional context
I strongly think its an issue of backward incompatibility where the parameter force_col_types is unknown to an older h2o3 version

Permalink

h2o-3/h2o-py/h2o/h2o.py

Line 341 in facf8f4

def upload_file(path, destination_frame=None, header=0, sep=None, col_names=None, col_types=None,

[valenad1]

Clients are not backwards compatible. Each h2o version need to use client with the same version. Are you sure that your backend is 3.42.0.4?

The current version is 3.46.0.6. It works there. Nevertheless, we are not supporting 3.42.0.4 anymore.