From 58ed23913dbc4c9bad97f657d45d5b6e06652a42 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Colin Caine <cmc@cs.man.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2017 05:37:23 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] exmode: Give build-time error on bad arg types

---
 scripts/excmds_macros.py | 2 ++
 src/parsers/exmode.ts    | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/excmds_macros.py b/scripts/excmds_macros.py
index 1bcd9a57..07a94148 100755
--- a/scripts/excmds_macros.py
+++ b/scripts/excmds_macros.py
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ class Signature:
             # Type declaration
             if ':' in param:
                 name, typ = map(str.strip, param.split(':'))
+                if typ not in ('number', 'boolean', 'string', 'string[]', 'ModeName') and '|' not in typ:
+                    raise Exception("Edit me! " + typ + " is not a supported type!")
             # Default argument
             elif '=' in param:
                 name, default = map(str.strip, param.split('='))
diff --git a/src/parsers/exmode.ts b/src/parsers/exmode.ts
index 421a3b8a..8a4c515f 100644
--- a/src/parsers/exmode.ts
+++ b/src/parsers/exmode.ts
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ function convertArgs(params, argv) {
     const conversions = {
         number: convert.toNumber,
         boolean: convert.toBoolean,
-        string: (s)=>s,
+        string: s=>s,
+        ModeName: s=>s,
     }
 
     const typedArgs = []