F mypy

Summary

Add mypy to the GitLab CI/CD pipeline.

Focus

.gitlab-ci.yml now contains a mypy job that checks the code base for type errors. It is allowed to fail.

Test Environment

Regular setup.

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• Reference related issues
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• Annotations in code (Gitlab comments)
  • Intent of new code
  • Problems with old code
  • Why this implementation?

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• All automated tests pass
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unittests/docker/Dockerfile

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ RUN apt-get update && \
     apt-get install -y \
       pylint3 python3-pip tox git \
       curl pycodestyle \
-      python3-sphinx
+      python3-sphinx python3-mypy
 ARG COMMIT="dev"
 # TODO Rename to linkahead
 RUN git clone -b dev https://gitlab.indiscale.com/caosdb/src/caosdb-pylib.git linkahead-pylib && \