SMBIOS Information Library

TODO: godoc link

Adding a new type

Types are defined in DMTF DSP0134. As of July 2019, the most recent published version is 3.2.0.

Adding a type largely consists of copy-pasting a bunch of information from the doicument to define a Go struct and its string representation. To make that easier, a set of tools is provided ina Gist here. These are Python scripts that take chunks of data copy-pasted from this document and produce a struct, anum or bit field declaration. These are by no means perfect and do not handle all the cases of weird formatting in the document, and may be broken completely by future formatting changes (but hopefully can be fixed if needed).

So, adding a type should look something like this:

• Create typeXXX_new_information.go with boilerplate from some other type (copyright, imports).

• Generate the struct: tools/gen_struct.py NewInformation >> typeXXX_new_information.go.

• Generate enums and bitfields if needed.

• Examine the generated code and tweak it manually if necessart.

• Run gofmt on it: gofmt typeXXX_new_information.go.

• Add new Type and a corresponding constant to table_type.go.

• Implement the constructor function, NewNewInformation in this case.

• Most of the parsing can be done by reflection-based parser, see parseStruct.

• Add data validation and any additional custom parsing code necessary.

• Implement the String() method for *NewInformation.

• Add getter to the Info type, GetNewInformation.