generate_packets.py: restructure parsing and handling of type aliases

• Reporter: alienvalkyrie
• Owner: alienvalkyrie
• Type: Patches
• Status: Closed
• Component: Bootstrap
• MileStone: 3.2.0
• Priority: 5 - Medium
• Severity: 5 - Medium
• Resolution: Fixed
• File: 1

Details

Part of #43927. Current type alias code is unnecessarily convoluted. Remove the Type class and replace the list of alias definitions with a dict mapping names to values.

Also consider handling duplicate type aliases – current code effectively silently ignores later definitions with the same name.

Ticket History (3/4 Histories)

2022-05-13 03:31 Updated by: alienvalkyrie

• New Ticket "generate_packets.py: restructure parsing and handling of type aliases" created

2022-05-13 03:37 Updated by: alienvalkyrie

• File 0003-generate_packets.py-restructure-type-alias-code.patch (File ID: 9208) is attached

2022-05-13 03:39 Updated by: alienvalkyrie

• Resolution Update from None to Accepted

Comment

Depends on #44571 and #44572. Does not interfere with #44563

2022-05-14 20:20 Updated by: alienvalkyrie

• Status Update from Open to Closed
• Resolution Update from Accepted to Fixed