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A Python platform to perform astrodynamics and space research.
https://tudat-space.readthedocs.io/
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Feature Request: Expose all members of high-level objects #57

Open jo11he opened 2 years ago

jo11he commented 2 years ago

I notice that the exposition of members of high-level objects is still quite incomplete. This leads to situations where the user is left clueless, e.g. when trying to retrieve environment parameters after a simulation (or estimation) from the environment. One example I can give is the body object, which does for example not have its radiation_pressure_interface member exposed. I am sure there are many more instances of this.

There are more issues with this, namely that there is no RadiationPressureInterface class exposed in python, such that - even if the class was exposed as a member of body - the members of RadiationPressureInterface (or rather the parameters defining the instance of that class) are not accessible to the tudatpy user. A good example of this is the aerodynamic_coefficient_interface, which is given as a member of the body class, but the AerodynamicCoefficientInterface class itself is inaccessible to the tudatpy user because it has not yet been exposed.

So in short: If you want to improve tudatpy and the docs that come with it (nicely linking all the connections between objects and their members), a makeover from this "completeness" point of view could be a good start.

gaffarelj commented 2 years ago

I can take care of this, little by little.

I do encourage anyone to drop new elements in this thread when they see that something is still missing, using checkboxes for each element to be exposed so that I can follow whether something has been done already or not.

(cc @DominicDirkx @FilippoOggionni @geoffreygarrett)