Issue/dataclasses (#573)

Added dataclasses

Co-authored-by: Sander Van Balen <[email protected]>

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,8 +1,12 @@
 # Changelog
 
-## v8.1.1 - ?
+## v8.2.1 - ?
 
 
+## v8.2.0 - 2025-01-21
+
+- Added support for dataclasses, a special type of entity that has a Python counterpart.
+
 ## v8.1.0 - 2025-01-16
 
 - Add json serialization and deserialization plugins

model/_init.cf

@@ -212,6 +212,25 @@ entity ManagedDevice:
     hoststring  name
 end
 
+entity Dataclass:
+    """ 
+        Super class for inmanta entities that have a python counterpart.
+
+        The python counterpart is expect to be 
+        - a frozen dataclass,
+        - with the same name 
+        - in the plugins package of this module
+        - in the corresponding submodule
+        - with the exact same fields 
+
+        The Inmanta entity is expect to
+        - have no relations
+        - have no indexes
+        - have only std::none as implementation
+
+    """
+end
+
 entity Host extends ManagedDevice:
     """
         A host models a server or computer in the managed infrastructure that

module.yml

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 author: Inmanta <[email protected]>
 license: Apache 2.0
 name: std
-version: 8.1.1.dev0
+version: 8.2.1.dev0
 compiler_version: 2023.6