Imports and classes
- A few modules were reorganized, this might cause certain `import` statements to be broken, imports
that only use the `ldfparser` package are backwards compatible
- Previously `LinFrame` represented unconditional frames and was used to encode and decode frames,
this was changed in order to support the other frame types later. `LinFrame` now only contains
the most basic properties, name and identifier, while the rest has been transferred out into
`LinUnconditionalFrame` and `LinEventTriggeredFrame`. This change should only affect scripts that
directly reference the `LinFrame` class, when using queries through the `LDF` objects the behavior
is identical.
Dictionary object
- `protocol_version` and `language_version` were changed to be of string type, the previous floating
point values were good for comparing versions but it's overall problematic due to precision issues,
if you still need floating point values then you must convert them in your scripts
LDF object
- Previously the LDF class contained only a few methods that allowed searching in the collections,
but everything else had to be accessed through the member fields. This is changed in `0.10.0` in
order to allow a better deprecation process in the future.
- All fields have been prefixed with `_` to mark them as internal, they should not be accessed
directly
- Getters were added, they are direct replacements of the old member fields, e.g.: `ldf.signals`
was replaced with `ldf.get_signals()`
- Lookup methods in the LDF are now more performant because they don't rely on linear search, however
the behavior was changed, instead of returning `None` the new methods will raise a `LookupError`
- Properties are used to keep compatibility with older versions where these fields are referenced,
in the future there may be warnings enabled and possibly removed in later releases
Parsing
- Replace `ldf.parseLDF(x)` with `ldf.parse_ldf(x)`, signatures are slightly different but functionally identical
- Replace `ldf.parseLDFtoDict(x)` with `ldf.parse_ldf_to_dict(x)`