Add support to write multidimensional string arrays

[stephprince]

Motivation

Fixes https://github.com/hdmf-dev/hdmf/issues/1137 and fixes https://github.com/hdmf-dev/hdmf/issues/1096.

On build, multidimensional string lists/arrays were being converted into 1-D lists/arrays:

[['aa', 'bb'], ['cc', 'dd']] -> ["['aa', 'bb']", "['cc', 'dd']"].

On write, the shape of a multidimensional string dataset was being defined incorrectly and so the dataset could not be written. The data shape definition was being caught by this conditional that I believe is intended to check for structured arrays / compound data types:

https://github.com/hdmf-dev/hdmf/blob/7426275cacc769a10ffca89836765df1355ba9db/src/hdmf/backends/hdf5/h5tools.py#L1472-L1473

I updated the conditional and get_data_shape is now used to set the shape of the dataset for multidimensional string lists/arrays.

How to test the behavior?

This came up in https://github.com/NeurodataWithoutBorders/pynwb/pull/1924.

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[stephprince]

@rly I realized that I had only updated the string conversion for datasets so I updated __convert_string to accommodate multidimensional string arrays as attributes as well.

For testing, I added an additional attr_array argument to the Bar class constructor, but I'm not sure if that was the best approach or if there's a better way to test it since the Bar class seemed to be used in multiple places.