address comments

Author: dsobek

src/xml_parsing.cpp

@@ -645,7 +645,6 @@ TreeNode::Ptr XMLParser::PImpl::createNodeFromXML(const XMLElement* element,
   const auto element_name = element->Name();
   const auto element_ID = element->Attribute("ID");
 
-  // TODO: Pull out this node type logic
   auto node_type = convertFromString<NodeType>(element_name);
   // name used by the factory
   std::string type_ID;
@@ -690,8 +689,6 @@ TreeNode::Ptr XMLParser::PImpl::createNodeFromXML(const XMLElement* element,
 
   PortsRemapping port_remap;
   NonPortAttributes other_attributes;
-  // Only relevant for subtrees
-  bool do_autoremap = false;
 
   // Parse ports and validate them where we can.
   for(const XMLAttribute* att = element->FirstAttribute(); att; att = att->Next())
@@ -739,16 +736,22 @@ TreeNode::Ptr XMLParser::PImpl::createNodeFromXML(const XMLElement* element,
 
       port_remap[port_name] = port_value;
     }
-    else if(node_type == NodeType::SUBTREE && port_name == "_autoremap")
-    {
-      do_autoremap = convertFromString<bool>(port_value);
-    }
     else if(!IsReservedAttribute(port_name))
     {
       other_attributes[port_name] = port_value;
     }
   }
 
+  bool do_autoremap = false;
+  if(node_type == NodeType::SUBTREE)
+  {
+    const XMLAttribute* auto_remap_ptr = element->FindAttribute("_autoremap");
+    if(auto_remap_ptr != nullptr)
+    {
+      do_autoremap = convertFromString<bool>(auto_remap_ptr->Value());
+    }
+  }
+
   NodeConfig config;
   config.blackboard = blackboard;
   config.path = prefix_path + instance_name;
@@ -784,7 +787,6 @@ TreeNode::Ptr XMLParser::PImpl::createNodeFromXML(const XMLElement* element,
   //---------------------------------------------
   TreeNode::Ptr new_node;
 
-  // TODO: in order to set the config at this point, we need the subtree model, which is parsed after this function call in recursivelyCreateSubtree
   if(node_type == NodeType::SUBTREE)
   {
     // check if this subtree has a model. If it does,
@@ -818,7 +820,7 @@ TreeNode::Ptr XMLParser::PImpl::createNodeFromXML(const XMLElement* element,
     // populate the node config
     for(const auto& [port_name, port_value] : port_remap)
     {
-      PortDirection direction = PortDirection::INPUT;
+      auto direction = PortDirection::INPUT;
       if(subtree_model_it != subtree_models.end())
       {
         const PortsList& subtree_model_ports = subtree_model_it->second.ports;