Merge pull request #63 from IBM/v0.5.7.0b

[0.5.7.0]- 2024-11-26

Changed

• BACKWARD INCOMPATIBILITY - ScenarioDbManager.init: changed default values for db_type=DatabaseType.SQLite. For other uses (DB2 or PostgreSQL, always specify the db_type.
• BACKWARD INCOMPATIBILITY - ScenarioDbManager.init: changed default values for enable_scenario_seq=True, future=True. This reflects the current best practices.
• BACKWARD INCOMPATIBILITY - Removed ScenarioDbManager from dse_do_utils.__init__.py. This avoids the dependency on sqlalchemy with use of dse_do_utils where the ScenarioDbManager is not used.
  Introduces a slight backward incompatibility. Need to import as: from dse_do_utils.scenariodbmanager import ScenarioDbManager
• Removed (deprecated) module_reload() from dse_do_utils.__init__.py. In notebooks autoreload works well,
• Generics in ScenarioRunner
• Removed deprecated optional argument dtypes from Core01DataManager.prepare_output_data_frames()
• Fixed mutable default arguments in scenariodbmanager module

Added

• CplexDot in core01_optimization_engine: generic function class to use groupby aggregation and the mdl.dot() function.
• PlotlyManager - self.ref_dm, self.ms_inputs, self.ms_outputs property declarations and documentation
• PlotlyManager.plotly_kpi_compare_bar_charts and .get_multi_scenario_table for scenario compare
• Core01DataManager and Core01OptimizationEngine: added support for parameter mipGap. Sets the mdl.parameters.mip.tolerances.mipgap if value > 0
• DataManager.extract_solution adds option allow_mixed_type_columns. If True allows dvar/expr in column to be a regular Python value and not have the solution_value attribute