Support for nested subElement in ImplementationDataType and ImplementationDataTypeElement

[insubnia]

Hi @cogu

Before starting, I'm big fan of your autosar module and it's very useful for my works. As far as i know, ImplementationDataTypeElement can have subElement like belows.

       <IMPLEMENTATION-DATA-TYPE UUID="ffc534fa-9e89-4a14-82a1-eff8e4acaf50">
          <SHORT-NAME>Dt_RECORD_Reaction</SHORT-NAME>
          <CATEGORY>STRUCTURE</CATEGORY>
          <SUB-ELEMENTS>
            <IMPLEMENTATION-DATA-TYPE-ELEMENT UUID="931668fd-65e0-46f9-8768-fc6760c494c1">
              <SHORT-NAME>FCA</SHORT-NAME>
              <CATEGORY>STRUCTURE</CATEGORY>
              <SUB-ELEMENTS>
                <IMPLEMENTATION-DATA-TYPE-ELEMENT UUID="b56869c7-2039-4421-ad04-994f7773eebd">
                  <SHORT-NAME>Ro_Inhibit</SHORT-NAME>
                  <CATEGORY>TYPE_REFERENCE</CATEGORY>
                  <SW-DATA-DEF-PROPS>
                    <SW-DATA-DEF-PROPS-VARIANTS>
                      <SW-DATA-DEF-PROPS-CONDITIONAL>
                        <IMPLEMENTATION-DATA-TYPE-REF DEST="IMPLEMENTATION-DATA-TYPE">/AUTOSAR_DataTypes/ImplementationDataTypes/uint8</IMPLEMENTATION-DATA-TYPE-REF>
                      </SW-DATA-DEF-PROPS-CONDITIONAL>
                    </SW-DATA-DEF-PROPS-VARIANTS>
                  </SW-DATA-DEF-PROPS>
                </IMPLEMENTATION-DATA-TYPE-ELEMENT>
                <IMPLEMENTATION-DATA-TYPE-ELEMENT UUID="20ed6f15-f125-4d10-88db-7346cf01e403">
                  <SHORT-NAME>Sf2_Inhibit</SHORT-NAME>
                  <CATEGORY>TYPE_REFERENCE</CATEGORY>
                  <SW-DATA-DEF-PROPS>
                    <SW-DATA-DEF-PROPS-VARIANTS>
                      <SW-DATA-DEF-PROPS-CONDITIONAL>
                        <IMPLEMENTATION-DATA-TYPE-REF DEST="IMPLEMENTATION-DATA-TYPE">/AUTOSAR_DataTypes/ImplementationDataTypes/uint8</IMPLEMENTATION-DATA-TYPE-REF>
                      </SW-DATA-DEF-PROPS-CONDITIONAL>
                    </SW-DATA-DEF-PROPS-VARIANTS>
                  </SW-DATA-DEF-PROPS>
                </IMPLEMENTATION-DATA-TYPE-ELEMENT>
              </SUB-ELEMENTS>
            </IMPLEMENTATION-DATA-TYPE-ELEMENT>
          </SUB-ELEMENTS>
        </IMPLEMENTATION-DATA-TYPE>

Is it possible to generate above code by using your module? If not, you have some plans for support? (I hope module had createImplementationDataElement APIs) Thank you in advance

[cogu]

Do you mean STRUCTURE element inside a STRUCTURE element? Yeah, that's currently not supported. You're right that the datatype.ImplementationDataType class would benefit from a createImplementationDataElement method to make it more powerful. I'm currently engaged in other projects and don't know when I will have time to implement this feature. I will keep it mind once I get back to working with the Python module.

[cogu]

Starting from v0.5.0 it should now be possible now to create record and array data types of arbitrary complexity and depth.