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@oflatt oflatt commented Sep 11, 2024

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This PR adds type-annotated entity manifests to Cedar. It does so via a post-pass over the entity manifest instead of adding the types at analysis time. This design enables easy serialization and deserialization, as long as type annotations are added again after deserialization.

This will enable a smarter API that can traverse the entity manifest in a type-aware way. The entity loader can provide subsets of the entity manifest that don't have entity dereferences, simplifying the problem to loading single entities.

PR stack:
#1102
#1105
#1154
#1156
#1171
#1196 (This PR)
#1208

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@oflatt oflatt marked this pull request as ready for review September 11, 2024 19:47
@oflatt oflatt changed the title Type-annotated entity manifests Entity Slicing: Type-annotated entity manifests Sep 16, 2024
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Closed in favor of a single PR.

@shaobo-he-aws shaobo-he-aws deleted the oflatt/entity-manifest-type-annotated branch October 4, 2025 03:54
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