enhancement(lading_payload): Add !concat selector for templated_json#1825
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enhancement(lading_payload): Add !concat selector for templated_json#1825
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What does this PR do?
Adds a new
!concatmechanism to thetemplated_jsonpayload generator. Docs are in the README and code.Motivation
I was needing to generate an object containing a set of fixed fields mixed with other fields chosen from a small set of patterns. This ended up requiring all the fixed fields duplicated for each choice.
Related issues
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Additional Notes
The overwrite behavior when joining different types is an intentional simplification. I initially tried to make the resolver do a type check pass to ensure that all sub-generators would have the same type, but that became much more difficult than I had expected.