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Provide mechanism to get record type

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start by locating the RecordWrapper implementation and the set() handling it exposes. Trace how record types and accepted keyword arguments are represented, then define what get_type() should return for examples such as ao and bi. Done means callers can retrieve the record type reliably and the behavior is covered by tests.

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Description

enhancement

It would be convenient to have some method on a RecordWrapper that allows retrieving the record's type. For example, a get_type() record might return a string ao, to say that this record is an Analog Out type, or bi for Boolean In, etc.

This would allow users to query RecordWrapper instances dynamically to know what keyword arguments set() allows, for example.

Dominant language
Python
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Forks
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Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
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