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Posted: **Mon Apr 24, 2017 10:54 am**

Hey there,

Is there any built-in mechanism to specify custom conventions that will be used when parsing data in TypeManager.create_type_from_dict/create_type_from_file?

Say, I've got the following file

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[function]

    # CTFGameRules::GetPayloadToBlock
    [[get_payload_to_block]]
        identifier_windows =
        identifier_linux = _ZNK12CTFGameRules17GetPayloadToBlockEi
        convention = MY_CALLING_CONVENTION
        arguments_windows = POINTER, INT
        arguments_linux = POINTER, POINTER, INT

I'd like to pass somewhere a dict like

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{'MY_CALLING_CONVENTION': MyCallingConvention}

to get the function built with that convention.

So far the only possibility I've found is to:
1. Subclass memory.helpers.Key and override its as_convention method;
2. Subclass memory.manager.TypeManager and override its create_type_from_dict method so that it will use my own Key class instead of the stock one.

But create_type_from_dict is way too big. Copy-pasting it only to replace all Key occurrences seems dumb to me.

Posted: **Mon Apr 24, 2017 11:26 am**

For now I will override TypeManager.function to replace convention in case it is Convention.CUSTOM and will define conventions I need as CUSTOM in the ini-file. This limits me to one custom convention per one TypeManager. Luckily I only need one.

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class PLRTypeManager(TypeManager):
    def function(
            self, identifier, args=(), return_type=DataType.VOID,
            convention=Convention.THISCALL, doc=None):

        if convention == Convention.CUSTOM:
            convention = _GetPayloadConvention
        
        return super().function(identifier, args, return_type, convention, doc)

Posted: **Mon Apr 24, 2017 7:11 pm**

It should be possible now:
https://github.com/Source-Python-Dev-Te ... cb072c6140

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