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Diffstat (limited to 'yocto-poky/meta/lib/oe/data.py')
-rw-r--r-- | yocto-poky/meta/lib/oe/data.py | 17 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/yocto-poky/meta/lib/oe/data.py b/yocto-poky/meta/lib/oe/data.py new file mode 100644 index 000000000..4cc0e0296 --- /dev/null +++ b/yocto-poky/meta/lib/oe/data.py @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +import oe.maketype + +def typed_value(key, d): + """Construct a value for the specified metadata variable, using its flags + to determine the type and parameters for construction.""" + var_type = d.getVarFlag(key, 'type') + flags = d.getVarFlags(key) + if flags is not None: + flags = dict((flag, d.expand(value)) + for flag, value in flags.iteritems()) + else: + flags = {} + + try: + return oe.maketype.create(d.getVar(key, True) or '', var_type, **flags) + except (TypeError, ValueError), exc: + bb.msg.fatal("Data", "%s: %s" % (key, str(exc))) |