tests in _test_local/ are broken/out-of-date

[jewettaijfc]

These tests have been broken for years.
Should we delete them?

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Several modules that the tests/_test_local/ tests depend on have been removed.

• tests/_test_local/_test_adjoint_performance.py tries to import tidy3d_backend
• tests/_test_local/_test_data_performance.py tries to import tidy3d_backend
• tests/_test_local/_test_fit_web.py tries to import tidy3d.plugins.fitter
• tests/_test_local/_test_plugins_web.py tries to import tidy3d.plugins.fitter
• tests/_test_local/_test_web.py tries to import tidy3d.web.auth

These three modules (eg. tidy3d_backend, tidy3d.plugins.fitter, tidy3d.web.auth) no longer exist, and the functions they contained (eg. encode_password, get_credentials) are also missing from the codebase.

To Reproduce

pytest tests/_test_local/*.py

UPDATE: The missing modules contained code that is very out of date, which is probably why they were removed.

Priority
Low. This is not a user-facing bug. But these tests might be useful to have.

Additional context

I was hoping to use these tests to verify that PR2654 is working.

(It's probably not a big problem for me at the moment. I will try adding my changes to test_webapi.py instead.)

[jewettaijfc]

The tidy3d/web/auth.py and tidy3d/web/config.py files were deleted by @momchil-flex in commit 15ffe9a.

I tried to put them back (using the parent commit, 59e6cef). But putting the files back did not fix the problem. When I tried running pytest -s -n0 tests/_test_local/_test_web.py, I encountered a lot of new pydantic-specific errors.

So it looks these test files in _test_local/ are a maintenance burden for us.

Should delete the 5 failing files (listed above) in _test_local/?

[momchil-flex]

Yes, I think we can delete those, they are extremely old.