Added the ability to see built components from make_components. This is needed for the lava context in ngclava

Author: willgebhardt

ngcsimlib/context.py

@@ -327,6 +327,7 @@ def make_components(self, path_to_components_file, custom_file_dir=None):
                 this directory is named `custom` if the save_to_json method is
                 used. (Default: None)
         """
+        made_components = []
         with open(path_to_components_file, 'r') as file:
             componentsConfig = json.load(file)
 
@@ -349,6 +350,9 @@ def make_components(self, path_to_components_file, custom_file_dir=None):
                 if check_attributes(obj, ["load"]):
                     obj.load(custom_file_dir)
 
+                made_components.append(obj)
+        return made_components
+
     def make_ops(self, path_to_ops_file):
         """
         Loads a collection of ops from a json file. Follow `ops.schema`
@@ -501,3 +505,4 @@ def make_modules(self):
             _modules.append({"absolute_path": key, "attributes": value["attributes"]})
 
         return _modules
+