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[settings] Use a generic setting's own type as its default type
When fetching a named setting using a name that does not explicitly specify a type, default to using the type stored when the setting was created, rather than always defaulting to "string". This allows the behaviour of user-defined settings to match the behaviour of predefined settings (which have a sensible default type). For example: set server:ipv4 192.168.0.1 echo ${server} will now print "192.168.0.1", rather than trying to print out the raw IPv4 address bytes as a string. The downside of this change is that existing tricks for printing special characters within scripts may require (backwards-compatible) modification. For example, the "clear screen" sequence: set esc:hex 1b set cls ${esc}[2J echo ${cls} will now have to become set esc:hex 1b set cls ${esc:string}[2J # Must now explicitly specify ":string" echo ${cls} Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
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