Enable the IDF component-link to use full path name of component

[Karl Palmen]

At present the usefulness of the IDF component-link item is limited by that the component can only be specified only by its local name, which may not be unique. This could be improved if a full path name could be accepted or better still a partial path name as is the case for instrument#getComponentbyName().

This could be done by moving instrument.getAllComponentsWithName() up to compAssembly and calling repeatedly along the path as is now done by component.getComponentByName().

The unit test DataHandlingTest LoadInstrument test can be modified to test this.

[Karl Palmen]

One can assume a component with '/' in its name is unique and so use getComponentByName() rather than GetAllComponentsWithName() in this case.

[Karl Palmen]

Placing the unit test in LoadParametersTest rather than LoadInstrumentTest would save creating another copy of an IDF file and could be a lot simpler.

[Karl Palmen]

Implement a simple solution re #6335

Make InstrumentDefinitionParser use getComponentByName if a '/' is found in the component's name. Component is assumed unique if there is a '/' in its name.

Signed-off-by: Karl Palmen <karl.palmen@…>

Changeset: 4deb13d65e863f8228d7330d5889a96a394d0f7c

[Karl Palmen]

Modify Test file to test this feature re #6335

Signed-off-by: Karl Palmen <karl.palmen@…>

Changeset: 26d625b164045aab79d2acc059ea0bf3aeb8c8ff

[Karl Palmen]

To test I suggest executing LoadEmptyInstrument or LoadParameterFile on a parameter file that has a component link to a component that is not the whole instrument and is unique.

Then check that the component has loaded as expected by either viewing the instrument or checking its fitting parameters (depending on content of the component-linked parameter data).

[Karl Palmen]

Implement a simple solution re #6335

Make InstrumentDefinitionParser use getComponentByName if a '/' is found in the component's name. Component is assumed unique if there is a '/' in its name.

Signed-off-by: Karl Palmen <karl.palmen@…>

Changeset: 4394e5bfc8379430bca9b62c2d511c8adb44ed09

[Karl Palmen]

Modify Test file to test this feature re #6335

Signed-off-by: Karl Palmen <karl.palmen@…>

Changeset: 4b90463278b1cc0ec9cf248e9cb58295ffabb3f7

[Stuart Campbell]

This ticket has been transferred to github issue ​7181