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Mapped parameters can't refer to base class parameters

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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, yaml
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by tracing how the library resolves mapped parameters and base-class parameters from the YAML declarations; the issue does not name files or tests. Identify the compile-time rejection for a derived class referring to a base-class parameter, then use or add a focused case covering that inheritance pattern. Done means the derived declaration compiles without redeclaring the base parameter.

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Description

enhancement

This is probably not a bug but a feature request. In any case, I had a situation where I had joints parameter defined in a base class. In the derived class, I needed to use a mapped parameter that referred to the base class joints parameters. This would not compile.. I got around it by re-declaring the same joints parameter in the derived class yaml file. This worked but is not ideal since the joints parameter is now declared in two places.

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