API to Import type from BNDB

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
api, reverse-engineering

Research direction

Compare the BNDB load(...).types data with the behavior of bv.define_user_type(name, type) to determine what an equivalent import API must cover. Done means the API can import the relevant types from a BNDB with behavior equivalent to the requested operation.

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Description

Component: API Effort: Low Impact: Low

What is the feature you'd like to have?
I want an equivalent API for the following:

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Additional Information:
I tried the following script, but I'm not sure it's exactly equivalent.

for name, type in load(bndb_path).types.items():
    bv.define_user_type(name, type)
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