Develop project vault iceberg

[MichaelTiemannOSC]

This PR augments the existing ITR ptorotype by adding a connection to the Data Commons. It preserves/incorporates the Pint Units enhancements recently added to the develop branch. To test, this PR requires access to credentials to certain GitHub user identities. We really need to sort a better way to integrate credential management with CI/CD testing.

Happy to answer any questions...

[MichaelTiemannOSC]

I can run the tests as me with my dotenv permissions, but the data vault requires special handling (as mentioned above). Help please ;-)

ImportError: Failed to import test module: test_vault_providers
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.9.12/x64/lib/python3.9/unittest/loader.py", line 436, in _find_test_path
    module = self._get_module_from_name(name)
  File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.9.12/x64/lib/python3.9/unittest/loader.py", line 377, in _get_module_from_name
    __import__(name)
  File "/home/runner/work/ITR/ITR/test/test_vault_providers.py", line 13, in <module>
    from ITR.data.vault_providers import VaultCompanyDataProvider, VaultProviderProductionBenchmark, \
  File "/home/runner/work/ITR/ITR/ITR/data/vault_providers.py", line 3, in <module>
    from dotenv import load_dotenv
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'dotenv'

[MichaelTiemannOSC]

The merge above was done hastily to fix long-standing DCO problems. It almost certainly won't run, but it will create a workable baseline from which the code can be resurrected.

[dp90]

Some of the current errors I was able to resolve by installing some missing packages (added those to requirements.txt).

Regarding the credentials, I think a common practice is to include them as GitHub secrets (under the repo settings in Secrets and variables -> actions). In the CI/CD testing we could then add a step to the workflow .yaml file such as

• name: Create .env file
  run: |
  echo "${{ secrets.ENV_FILE }}" > .env

The ENV_FILE secret would hold the environment variables in the same format as they are locally. What are your thoughts?