Filling XLSX: Everything except multiple choice.

Summary

For caosdb/customers/dimr/management#219:

Filling XLSX templates from JSON works now.

Focus

• Correct handling of foreign keys
• Correct handling of other lists

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Run the unit tests.

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src/caosadvancedtools/table_json_conversion/fill_xlsx.py

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import json
+import pathlib
 from collections import OrderedDict
 from types import SimpleNamespace
 from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional, Union, TextIO
@@ -60,14 +61,6 @@ def _get_column_types(sheet: Worksheet) -> OrderedDict:
     return result
 
 
-def _get_deep_value(data: Dict[str, Any], path: List[str]):
-    """Return the value at ``path`` inside the dict ``data``.
-    """
-    if len(path) > 1:
-        return _get_deep_value(data[path[0]], path[1:])
-    return data[path[0]]
-
-
 def _get_foreign_key_columns(sheet: Worksheet) -> Dict[str, SimpleNamespace]:
     """Return the foreign keys of the worksheet.
 
@@ -366,4 +359,7 @@ validation_schema: dict, optional
     result_wb = load_workbook(template)
     template_filler = TemplateFiller(result_wb)
     template_filler.fill_data(data=data)
+
+    parentpath = pathlib.Path(result).parent
+    parentpath.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
     result_wb.save(result)