API: Add support for type aliases
Previously all types are compound. This adds support for aliases,
so one can do things like:
typedef u32 interface_index;
or
typedef u8 ip4_address[4];
Change-Id: I0455cad0123fc88acb491d2a3ea2725426bdb246
Signed-off-by: Ole Troan <ot@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Klement Sekera <ksekera@cisco.com>
diff --git a/src/vpp-api/python/vpp_papi/vpp_serializer.py b/src/vpp-api/python/vpp_papi/vpp_serializer.py
index bd0f738..a001cca 100644
--- a/src/vpp-api/python/vpp_papi/vpp_serializer.py
+++ b/src/vpp-api/python/vpp_papi/vpp_serializer.py
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
self.packer = BaseTypes(field_type, num)
self.size = self.packer.size
- def pack(self, list, kwargs):
+ def pack(self, list, kwargs = None):
"""Packs a fixed length bytestring. Left-pads with zeros
if input data is too short."""
if not list:
@@ -277,6 +277,18 @@
return self.tuple._make(r), maxsize
+def VPPTypeAlias(name, msgdef):
+ t = vpp_get_type(msgdef['type'])
+ if not t:
+ raise ValueError()
+ if 'length' in msgdef:
+ if msgdef['length'] == 0:
+ raise ValueError()
+ types[name] = FixedList(name, msgdef['type'], msgdef['length'])
+ else:
+ types[name] = t
+
+
class VPPType(object):
# Set everything up to be able to pack / unpack
def __init__(self, name, msgdef):