Also, I seem to recall some sort of long description field in settings that I attempted to use, but did not do anything.
I was looking for some UI control akin to a label or tooltip (i.e., to provide a longer description or notes about a particular setting) but could not find anything that did that.
If such a thing existed, it would be useful in an export
On the format of csv, seems like the following fields would be useful:
setting_name, group_name, setting_description, type, value
types: boolean, int, float, list, string
Not sure if having a column for the possible values of a setting, such as range or list, would be of any value to the user.
Seems like there would need to be some logic at import time to resolve any conflicts or missing, as I dont think there is a concept of "default values" for settings within chirp at this point. Along these lines, settings can also change/expand over time with newer versions of software. Conflict/missing resolution would also be needed here.
I guess if it's importing settings over an existing radio image, this may be
easier.
But there is still the general idea of how to deal with InvalidValueError exceptions!
-J
From: Jens J. <kd4tjx@yahoo.com>
To: "chirp_devel@intrepid.danplanet.com" <chirp_devel@intrepid.danplanet.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2013 6:11 PM
Subject: Re: [chirp_devel] RFC settings import export
In my limited dealings with settings on a few radios, they seem very proprietary.
How can you "serialize" these?
Noting that not all radios have settings stored within a single array or struct - there may be multiple places, and then some custom logic on how it's read from and stored to radio image.
Now that I think
about it, perhaps you could export just Chirp's view of the settings, as it is more or less a tree structure, with a few fixed types and values.
Seems like it would work ok to import settings between same models, but would get very tricky (if not impossible) to implement across models.
-J
From: IZ3GME Marco <iz3gme.marco@gmail.com>
To: chirp_devel@intrepid.danplanet.com
Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2013 6:05 PM
Subject: [chirp_devel] RFC
settings import export