References are using string literal list as default value

[stv0g]

I dont exactly know if this is a bug or just something I have not fully understood:

There are a lot of instances where the CGMES classes are using "list" as a default value for attributes which usually point to other classes?

Why dont we use None here? Is this done to indicate that this is a 1-to-n relation ship and the attribute may contain a list of references?

I find it pretty odd to use a string literal in this case. Why not initialize them with an empty list [] in this case?

@sogno-platform/cim-maintainers

[stv0g]

As suspected the string literal "list" is used for non 1-to-1 relationships.

Here is the relevant piece of code in CIMgen:

cimgen/python/langPack.py

Line 53 in 61c3564

return '"list"'

Hence, this requires a change in CIMgen. Moving the issue over to this repo.