Draft: Automatic XLSX export

Summary

Added a function to automatically export records from an Iterable to xlsx.
Addresses #143 / https://gitlab.indiscale.com/caosdb/customers/dimr/management/-/issues/269

Focus

Does this lack any features that are necessary and might have been missed during planning? Can this be used in the intended workflow?

Test Environment

Manual tests, ideally against test data I might not have available.
Additionally, if this needs to work on Windows and there is a working VM somewhere, this should probably also be tested there, as afaik NamedTemporaryFiles are somewhat error-prone on Win.

Check List for the Author

• All automated tests pass
• Reference related issues
• Up-to-date CHANGELOG.md (or not necessary)
• Up-to-date JSON schema (or not necessary)
• Appropriate developer documentation
• Appropriate user documentation
• Tests (or not necessary)
• Annotations in code (Gitlab comments)

Check List for the Reviewer

• I understand the intent of this MR
• All automated tests pass
• Up-to-date CHANGELOG.md (or not necessary)
• Appropriate user and developer documentation (or not necessary)
• The test environment setup works and the intended behavior is reproducible in the test environment
• In-code documentation and comments are up-to-date.
• Check: Are there specifications? Are they satisfied?

src/caosadvancedtools/table_json_conversion/export_import_xlsx.py

@@ -24,18 +24,24 @@ Utilities for automatically exporting and importing data to and from xlsx.
 import json
 import tempfile
 import warnings
+import logging
 from typing import Union
 from pathlib import Path
 
 import linkahead
 from linkahead.common.models import Container
 from linkahead import execute_query
-from linkahead.high_level_api import convert_to_python_object
 
 from ..json_schema_exporter import JsonSchemaExporter, merge_schemas
 from .table_generator import XLSXTemplateGenerator
 from .fill_xlsx import fill_template
 
+# The high_level_api import would normally warn about the API being
+# experimental. We know this, so suppress the warning.
+logging.disable(logging.WARNING)
+from linkahead.high_level_api import convert_to_python_object   # noqa: E402, pylint: disable=wrong-import-position
+logging.disable(logging.NOTSET)
+
 
 def _generate_jsonschema_from_recordtypes(recordtypes: list,
                                           out_path: Union[str, Path] = None) -> dict: