Find_backlink_handles class name references

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I see that find_backlink_handles returns a class name. Most uses appear to compare this against a string. Is there a location of constants or class objects that this can be compared with to avoid issues with typos in strings?

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You could use the CLASS_TO_KEY_MAP dictionary in the dbconst.py file. I don’t think that there is a recommended or consistent way to do this though. The same applies to looping through all object types. I seem to remember seeing a list of object types appear in a few places in the code.

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Thanks, that works nicely. I’m coming from a strongly typed programming background and find it’s useful to use constants like that where possible to avoid typos and to aide in refactoring.

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Here’s an example of it’s use for others that may want to do this addons-source/TodoReport.py at todo-report-context · jpschewe/addons-source · GitHub

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