Get area and floor by alias

[formatBCE]

Proposed change

Add ability to get area and floor by alias, when using corresponding get_$_by_name function. This is another take on changes, proposed in this PR by @synesthesiam

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[formatBCE]

@balloob you commented on previous PR by Mike, could you check this one please?

[formatBCE]

@frenck @balloob sorry for ping - this was marked for 2024.12, but looks like didn't make it. Should i close PRs, or they'll be merged eventually?

[joostlek]

Please be patient, I'm still in the process of trying to get the right people to look at it

[arturpragacz]

Oh, it has been quite some time. And some changes along the way.

Still I think it looks OK.

But please make sure it merges cleanly on current dev and CI still passes.

[formatBCE]

Oh, it has been quite some time. And some changes along the way.

Still I think it looks OK.

But please make sure it merges cleanly on current dev and CI still passes.

Want me to merge dev?

[arturpragacz]

Yes. It's been 4 months, there's been some changes, let's make sure CI still passes.

[formatBCE]

Yes. It's been 4 months, there's been some changes, let's make sure CI still passes.

Remember, that CI can fail randomly too :)

[formatBCE]

@arturpragacz your changes to the name normalization removed normalize_name method, that i used for aliases too. Should i use normalize_name from normalized_name_base_registry.py or create own (duplicated) implementation as in timers.py and intent.py?

[arturpragacz]

Use the one from the registry.

[formatBCE]

Done.

[formatBCE]

Please be patient, I'm still in the process of trying to get the right people to look at it

Any news? :) Another month...

[frenck]

Hi there @formatBCE 👋

Thanks for the pull request. I've marked it as draft for a moment. I want to take this one into the core architectural meeting to check with the others. We had a discussion on the linked previous pull request by Mike, so I want to make sure all concerns are addressed in this pull request.

Will get back to you later this week 👍

../Frenck

[formatBCE]

Woohoo! Glad to help! :)