Linking configs, elements and attributes

class Parser.LinkElement.Link(link: Optional[Union[str, Parser.LinkElement.Link]] = None, emphasize: int = 1)

The Link utility class is used for creating references to various components of the configuration model. A link could point to 3 different types of places:

• A Subconfig; For example: cores/

• An element inside a subconfig; For example: cores/core_0

• A An attribute instacne inside of an element inside of a subconfig; For example: cores/core_0:core_name

Links can be global or local to a subconfig in which case the subconfig part of a link does not need to be specified. For example if in the context of subconfig cores we wanted to point to the core_name attribute of core_0 we could use core_0:core_name. But if we wanted to access the same attribute from a config file other than cores.json we would need to write cores/core_0:core_name.