API: Add support for type aliases

Previously all types are compound. This adds support for aliases,
so one can do things like:

typedef u32 interface_index;

or
typedef u8 ip4_address[4];

Change-Id: I0455cad0123fc88acb491d2a3ea2725426bdb246
Signed-off-by: Ole Troan <ot@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Klement Sekera <ksekera@cisco.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/vpp-api/vapi/vapi_cpp_gen.py b/src/vpp-api/vapi/vapi_cpp_gen.py
index 6b62bc4da22..c08993dc918 100755
--- a/src/vpp-api/vapi/vapi_cpp_gen.py
+++ b/src/vpp-api/vapi/vapi_cpp_gen.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import os
 import sys
 import logging
 from vapi_c_gen import CField, CEnum, CStruct, CSimpleType, CStructType,\
-    CMessage, json_to_c_header_name
+    CMessage, json_to_c_header_name, CAlias
 from vapi_json_parser import JsonParser
 
 
@@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ class CppEnum(CEnum):
     pass
 
 
+class CppAlias(CAlias):
+    pass
+
+
 class CppSimpleType (CSimpleType):
     pass
 
@@ -251,7 +255,8 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
                             struct_type_class=CppStructType,
                             field_class=CppField,
                             enum_class=CppEnum,
-                            message_class=CppMessage)
+                            message_class=CppMessage,
+                            alias_class=CppAlias)
 
     gen_cpp_headers(jsonparser, logger, args.prefix, args.gen_h_prefix,
                     args.remove_path)