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2010-12-28Implement variable typingChris Larson
This implementation consists of two components: - oe.types python module, whose job it is to construct objects of the defined type for a given variable in the metadata - typecheck.bbclass, which iterates over all configuration variables with a type defined and uses oe.types to check the validity of the values This gives us a few benefits: - Automatic sanity checking of all configuration variables with a defined type - Avoid duplicating the "how do I make use of the value of this variable" logic between its users. For variables like PATH, this is simply a split(), for boolean variables, the duplication can result in confusing, or even mismatched semantics (is this 0/1, empty/nonempty, what?) - Make it easier to create a configuration UI, as the type information could be used to provide a better interface than a text edit box (e.g checkbox for 'boolean', dropdown for 'choice') This functionality is entirely opt-in right now. To enable the configuration variable type checking, simply INHERIT += "typecheck". Example of a failing type check: BAZ = "foo" BAZ[type] = "boolean" $ bitbake -p FATAL: BAZ: Invalid boolean value 'foo' $ Examples of leveraging oe.types in a python snippet: PACKAGES[type] = "list" python () { import oe.types for pkg in oe.types.value("PACKAGES", d): bb.note("package: %s" % pkg) } LIBTOOL_HAS_SYSROOT = "yes" LIBTOOL_HAS_SYSROOT[type] = "boolean" python () { import oe.types assert(oe.types.value("LIBTOOL_HAS_SYSROOT", d) == True) } Signed-off-by: Chris Larson <chris_larson@mentor.com>