PAPI: Expose API enums to tests / applications

e.g:
from vpp_papi import VppEnum

VppEnum.vl_api_address_family_t.ADDRESS_IP4

Change-Id: I10c22d57234a1a06e98a889cf80b19085b468ed3
Signed-off-by: Ole Troan <ot@cisco.com>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/vpp-api/python/vpp_papi/vpp_serializer.py b/src/vpp-api/python/vpp_papi/vpp_serializer.py
index cac6dd61791..240912d96ba 100644
--- a/src/vpp-api/python/vpp_papi/vpp_serializer.py
+++ b/src/vpp-api/python/vpp_papi/vpp_serializer.py
@@ -62,6 +62,13 @@ types['f64'] = BaseTypes('f64')
 types['bool'] = BaseTypes('bool')
 
 
+def vpp_get_type(name):
+    try:
+        return types[name]
+    except KeyError:
+        return None
+
+
 class FixedList_u8():
     def __init__(self, name, field_type, num):
         self.name = name
@@ -202,6 +209,9 @@ class VPPEnumType():
     def __getattr__(self, name):
         return self.enum[name]
 
+    def __nonzero__(self):
+        return True
+
     def pack(self, data, kwargs=None):
         return types['u32'].pack(data, kwargs)