Pregenerate class files in the repo

[lawrence-mbf]

Motivation

Fixes #555

How to test the behavior?

cloning the repo should not require generateCore when accessing classes.

Checklist

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• If this PR fixes an issue, is the first line of the PR description fix #XX where XX is the issue number?

[bendichter]

Looks great. Let's also adjust the tutorials, since generating the classes is no longer necessary

[lawrence-mbf]

@bendichter I think I got most of them. There's one that is kind of necessary in the "Reading NWB Data in MATLAB" tutorial since that does cover what happens if you read a file that does not have an embedded schema.

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Codecov Report

All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests ✅

Comparison is base (ec01001) 87.11% compared to head (87ce556) 87.11%.

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[bendichter]

why ignore cache here?

[lawrence-mbf]

The environment is already generated (we generated it in the section above) so we don't need to re-generate the cache. Furthermore, this preserves tests that probably run this tutorial.

[lawrence-mbf]

To clarify, since we do need to switch between schema versions in the tutorials, we generate the cache locally in a working directory so we can easily clean it up later, ensuring that the test environment is empty before we run the next test (which could be using any environment). As a result, I believe all tests and tutorials should be using ignorecache and its variants, otherwise you will end up with strange class reference errors.