Request for a tool to report all port definitions

[bevinduckett]

F´ Version
Affected Component

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Feature Description

It would be useful to have a tool that could recursively search for all port definitions from a directory and then report them in some TBD user friendly format.
I have a python script that uses a regex to produce a CSV with a summary of ports - but that's not ideal to be using regexp for this since FPP an interpreted language so there must be a cleaner approach.

File,Port Name,Port Args,Return Value
./lib/fprime/Drv/ByteStreamDriverModel/ByteStreamDriverModel.fpp,ByteStreamSend, ref sendBuffer: Fw.Buffer @< Data to send ,SendStatus
./lib/fprime/Drv/ByteStreamDriverModel/ByteStreamDriverModel.fpp,ByteStreamRecv, ref recvBuffer: Fw.Buffer recvStatus: RecvStatus ,
./lib/fprime/Drv/ByteStreamDriverModel/ByteStreamDriverModel.fpp,ByteStreamPoll, ref pollBuffer: Fw.Buffer ,PollStatus

Rationale

Ports should be defined in fpp files in Ports/ - however a project that includes multiple libraries can have multiple Ports/ subdirectories and some components define the ports in their fpp files rather than in a separate file. It'd be useful to have a tool that lets you see everything defined and where those things are defined

[Kronos3]

It may be possible to use a combination of find (to list all the .fpp files in a directory recursively), fpp-to-json, and an additional processing script to convert the json to a format for your use.

P.S. Shameless plug for https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=jet-propulsion-laboratory.fpp which will parse through your FPrime project and prompt you with ports, types, etc as you define your components which may meet your usecase.