avoid running test on MDSplus when the backend is not available

Author: olivhoenen

conftest.py

@@ -70,6 +70,13 @@ def pytest_addoption(parser):
     "hdf5": HDF5_BACKEND,
     "mdsplus": MDSPLUS_BACKEND,
 }
+try:
+    from imas.db_entry import DBEntry
+    from imas_core.exception import ImasCoreBackendException
+    DBEntry("imas:mdsplus?path=dummy","r")
+except ImasCoreBackendException as iex:
+    if "not available" in str(iex.message):
+        _BACKENDS.pop("mdsplus")
 
 
 try:

docs/source/conf.py

@@ -43,8 +43,8 @@
 # IMAS-Python
 repository_url = f"{iter_projects}/{src_project}/"
 blob_url = repository_url
-issue_url = jira_url = urljoin(repository_url, "/issues/")
-mr_url = urljoin(repository_url, "/pull/")
+issue_url = urljoin(repository_url, "issues/")
+mr_url = urljoin(repository_url, "pull/")
 
 
 # Configuration of sphinx.ext.extlinks

pyproject.toml

@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "packaging",
     "xxhash >= 2",
     "imas_data_dictionaries",
-    "imas_core>=5.5.3"
+    "imas_core"
 ]
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]