Post processor and pyton script

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We run the post processing from Fusion 360 by means of a Python script. In this script we set post program properties with a pairs of name and value (see snippet below). When the name of such a property in the Python script matches a user-defined property in the post program, i.e. in the Javascript file (.cps), the program receives the value provided by the Python script. This is good and as expected.

Question: Is it in the Python script possible to read (etc) which user-defined properties in the Post program that are available? In terms of the script snippet below, one would expect something like postInput.<whatever ...> ?

In the Python (.py) script we set post properties, in the case below it is just one property named “testProperty

 

In the Javascript (.cps) file we define our user-defined properties, in the case below it is just one property named “testProperty”.

// User-defined properties

properties = {

  testProperty: {

       title: "Test of a user defined property",

       description: "Output the machine settings in the header of the code.",

       group: "MyTest",

       type: "string",

       value: "piglet",

       scope: "post",

       enabled: "milling"

  }

}

...

  v0 = getProperty("testProperty", "No value provided");

  if (v0) {

    writeln("  getProperty(testProperty)=" + toString(v0));

}

else {

    writeln("  No property found by getProperty(testProperty)");

}