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category property

note

Work in progress. Might not make it to the final design.

Purpose​

Specify additional grouping information to enable a configuration tool to provide appropriate selections.

Syntax​

{
  "cdlOptions | cdlComponents": [
    {
      "id": "...",
      ...
      "category": "<string>",
      ...
    }
  ]
}

The value of the category property is a string.

Default value​

If missing, no category is assigned to the current object.

Description​

Configuration tools should usually be able to provide choices for various selections, such as choosing the hardware platform for the build. For this to work, specific packages should be marked with additional metadata recognised by the configuration tools.

Examples of such metadata are:

  • 'board' - for hardware boards
  • 'synthetic' - for synthetic platforms

Other metadata can be purely informative, like the kind of the object:

  • 'root'
  • 'architecture'
  • 'family'

It is recommended to use this extra metadata for top-level objects.

Example​

TBD

eCos reference​

  • none