googleapis / googleapis/google-cloud-python

[config] Add validation to ConfigClient/ConfigAsyncClient to ensure the transport is compatible

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Description

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### Summary of the feature request

Since the `ConfigAsyncClient` appears to only correctly function with the `grpc_asyncio` transport, it would be useful to validate that the sync-or-async of the transport matches the sync-or-async of the Client.

### Desired code experience

file: main.py
```python
def my_ideal_error_checking():
ConfigClient(..., transport="grpc_asyncio") # ERROR
ConfigAsyncClient(..., transport="grpc") # ERROR
ConfigAsyncClient(..., transport="rest") # ERROR

ConfigAsyncClient(..., transport="grpc_asyncio") # Success!
```

### Expected results

Creating a `ConfigClient` with an async transport or creating a `ConfigAsyncClient` with a synchronous transport would raise an exception.

### API client name and version

google-cloud-config==0.1.17

### Use case

This will prevent unnecessary troubleshooting of later issues which arise from incompatible transports.

### Additional context

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