Refactor to use ixmp4

[danielhuppmann]

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Description of PR

This PR refactors the ScSeAuth class to not retrieve the token for connecting to a Scenario-Explorer database directly but instead use the default-auth from the ixmp4 package.

Because ixmp4 0.2.0 only supports python 3.10, older Python versions are remove and 3.11-tests are currently disabled.

There are two issues that make this new dependency a bit more elaborate than necessary:

• users may have local (non-standard) "creds" files, so these credentials are used instead of the ixmp4 default
• users with standard pyam creds files will see a deprecation-warning to log in via ixmp4
• we have to keep backward-compatibility with the legacy Scenario Explorer databases, so we need to keep the anonymous token

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Codecov Report

Merging #766 (5772adc) into main (e70a0b7) will increase coverage by 0.2%.
The diff coverage is 70.9%.

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[phackstock]

Quick question about future logins for non-ixmp4 projects. Say I need to read some data from the private NGFS phase 4 internal scenario Explorer after this change is live on pyam. Can I do that then?

[danielhuppmann]

Quick question about future logins for non-ixmp4 projects. Say I need to read some data from the private NGFS phase 4 internal scenario Explorer after this change is live on pyam. Can I do that then?

Good question, and please suggest how to make this clearer in the docs (if you think it's necessary).

Setting your credentials using ixmp4 login <username> (in a console) will work for Scenario-Explorer and ixmp4 Platform instances.

If you have already set your credentials via pyam v1.x and simply pull the latest version of pyam (and install ixmp4) and do nothing else, doing pyam.iiasa.Connection(...) will work, but you will get the following warning:

DeprecationWarning: Using a pyam-credentials file is deprecated and will be removed in future versions. 
Please run `ixmp4 login <username>` in a console and manually delete
the file '<your-home-directory>/.local/pyam/iiasa.yaml'.

[phackstock]

Setting your credentials using ixmp4 login (in a console) will work for Scenario-Explorer and ixmp4 Platform instances.

Ah ok I see that's good to know. I'll suggest an update to the docs then.

[phackstock]

Looks good to me. Some small comments below.
One question regarding the tests. Is there an explicit test for authentication using ixmp4? I tried and didn't see one but maybe it's all there anyway.

[danielhuppmann]

Is there an explicit test for authentication using ixmp4?

@meksor added several tests in ixmp4.

[phackstock]

Looks good to me, ready to be merged.