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Improve type reporting in `UnknownArrayHandle`

Kenneth Moreland requested to merge kmorel/vtk-m:better-unknown-type-reporting into master

Added features with reporting types with UnknownArrayHandle. First, added a method named GetArrayTypeName that returns a string containing the type of the contained array. There were already methods GetValueType and GetStorageType, but this provides a convenience to get the whole name in one go.

Also improved the reporting when an AsArrayHandle call failed. Before, the thrown method just reported that the UnknownArrayHandle could not be converted to the given type. Now, it also reports the type actually held by the UnknownArrayHandle so the user can better understand why the conversion failed.

Also fixed an issue where the GetValueType and GetStorageType were not actually returning the correct type.

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