Fix empty string credentials validation issue, increase test coverage of credential validation

[modular-magician]

Fixes #14255

This PR:

• Improves testing for credential validation in the SDK provider config code
• Makes the tests for the plugin framework provider's config code match the new SDK tests
• Changes the new credential validator to allow empty strings as values of credentials in the provider config

Here are details of old tests that I replaced with test cases in a table-driven test

Removed test	Equivalent test case in new test
TestProvider_loadCredentialsFromFile (SDK version)	TestProvider_validateCredentials's "configuring credentials as a path to a credentials JSON file is valid"
TestProvider_loadCredentialsFromJSON (SDK version)	TestProvider_validateCredentials's "configuring credentials as a credentials JSON string is valid"
TestFrameworkProvider_loadCredentialsFromFile	TestFrameworkProvider_CredentialsValidator's "configuring credentials as a path to a credentials JSON file is valid"
TestFrameworkProvider_loadCredentialsFromJSON	TestFrameworkProvider_CredentialsValidator's "configuring credentials as a credentials JSON string is valid"

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provider: fixed bug where `credentials` field could not be set as an empty string

Derived from GoogleCloudPlatform/magic-modules#7690

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