2. Concepts

This project introduces a few concepts which are tightly integrated into how it works and is pre-requisite to using some of its more advanced features. These concepts can involve a number of things such as changing the semantics of how a user programs with Python, how comments are treated differently, and even how to represent types in IDA.

• 2.1. Multicased functions and classes as namespaces
  • 2.1.1. Classes as namespaces
  • 2.1.2. Aliases
  • 2.1.3. Multicased functions
  • 2.1.4. Examples – Namespace
  • 2.1.5. Examples – Functions
• 2.2. Tagging and the querying of the tag cache
  • 2.2.1. What is tagging and why is it useful
  • 2.2.2. Building the tag-cache
  • 2.2.3. Tag types
  • 2.2.4. Tag formats
  • 2.2.5. Tag encoding/decoding
  • 2.2.6. Querying tags
  • 2.2.7. Storage/Retrieval of tags
  • 2.2.8. “Explicit” and “Implicit” Tag Names
  • 2.2.9. Tag modules
  • 2.2.10. Examples – Querying
  • 2.2.11. Examples – Application of Tags and Retrieving them
• 2.3. Matching/Filtering of IDA types
  • 2.3.1. Examples
  • 2.3.2. Common matcher functions
• 2.4. Functional combinators
  • 2.4.1. Examples
  • 2.4.2. Combinators
• 2.5. Types in IDA
  • 2.5.1. Pythonic types format
  • 2.5.2. Examples
  • 2.5.3. Examples – Usage