Allow pytest to grab examples from a local repo clone instead of fetching them from GitHub

[kruglov-dmitrii]

Description of the feature

Please allow specifying a path to a locally-copied example-data repo, from which the examples for pytests can be fetched.

Why:

1. In some industries engineers have to work inside an environment with restricted internet access. Thus they cannot run pytests which require fetching examples from GitHub.
2. When debugging issues found during pytest-testing, it would be great to have the examples locally stored so that we don't need to fetch the same files from GitHub over and over again.

Steps for implementing the feature

One option is to add a setting to the local_config.json and/or conftest.py with a path to the local copy of the example-data repo. Then, in the pytest files check If this setting is specified. If yes - then look for examples there rather than download them from GitHub. If no - grab from GitHub.
P.S. Can be an argument passed to the decorater.

Useful links and references

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[Samuelopez-ansys]

Hi @kruglov-dmitrii ,

This is a good idea, which tests are downloading from the example-data repo? I can only find the tests "test_01_download" and in that case, it makes sense to test the download. You could skip them, or we could add a variable to skip the download test if it is failing for you locally.

Maybe there are some missed tests downloading from example-data, but ideally should not be the case, and all needed project are part of the PyAEDT repo.

[kruglov-dmitrii]

@Samuelopez-ansys I think you are right and it's mostly the download tests. Let me get back to you if/when I face issues anywhere else. Thanks!