Implementation of config parser validation and completion

tardis/data/tardis_default_config_definition.yml

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+tardis_config_version:
+  property_type: string
+  help: Version of the configuration file
+
+
+supernova:
+    luminosity_requested:
+        property_type: quantity
+        mandatory: True
+        default: None
+        help: requested output luminosity for simulation
+
+    time_explosion:
+        property_type: quantity
+        mandatory: True
+        default: None
+        help: time since explosion
+
+
+atom_data:
+  property_type: string
+  mandatory: True
+  help: path or filename to the Atomic Data HDF5 file
+
+
+model:
+    structure:
+    property_type : container-property
+
+    type:
+        property_type: container-declaration
+        containers: ['file', 'specific']
+        _file: ['file_property'] # why list
+
+        _specific: ['specific-property']
+
+    file_property:
+        filename:
+           property_type: string
+           default: None
+           mandatory: True
+           help: file name (with path) to structure model
+
+        filetype:
+           property_type: string
+           default: None
+           mandatory: True
+           help: file type
+            #### there are only a handful of types available how do we validate that ####
+
+        v_inner_boundary:
+            property_type: quantity
+            default: 0 km/s
+            mandatory: False
+            help: location of the inner boundary chosen from the model
+
+        v_outer_boundary:
+            property_type: quantity
+            default: inf km/s
+            mandatory: False
+            help: location of the inner boundary chosen from the model
+
+    specific_property:
+        velocity:
+            property_type: quantity_sampled_old
+            default: None
+            mandatory: True
+            help: >
+                location of boundaries in the velocity field.
+                There will be n-1 cells as this specifis both the inner and outer velocity components
+
+
+        density:
+            property_type: container-property
+            type:
+                property_type: container-declaration
+                containers: ['branch85_w7']
+
+                _branch85_w7: ['branch85_w7-property'] # list
+
+            branch85_w7-property:
+                time_0:
+                    property_type: quantity
+                    default: 19.9999584 s
+                    mandatory: False
+                    help: This needs no change - DO NOT TOUCH
+
+                density_coefficient:
+                    property_type: float
+                    default: 3e29
+                    mandatory: False
+                    help: This needs no change - DO NOT TOUCH
+
+
+    abundances:
+        #what do we do about that?
+
+
+
+plasma:
+    initial_t_inner:
+        property_type: quantity
+        default: None
+        mandatory: False
+        help: >
+            Initial temperature of the black-body at the inner boundary.
+            If set to `None` will set the temperature to match the output temperature
+
+    initial_t_rads:
+        property_type: quantity
+        default: 10000 K
+        mandatory: False
+        help: initialize the radiation temperature in each cell
+
+    disable_electron_scattering:
+        property_type: bool
+        default: False
+        mandatory: False
+        help: Disables electron scattering. WARNING!! use only for testing - non-physical
+
+    ionization:
+        property_type: string
+        default: None
+        mandatory: True
+        help: Treatment of ionization
+        #what about different options for validations
+
+    excitation:
+        property_type: string
+        default: None
+        mandatory: True
+        help: Treatment of excitation
+
+    radiative_rates_type:
+        property_type: string
+        default: None
+        mandatory: True
+        help: Treatment the radiative rates
+
+    line_interaction_type:
+        property_type: string
+        default: None
+        mandatory: True
+        help: Treatment the line interaction
+
+
+montecarlo:
+    seed:
+        property_type: int
+        default: 23111963
+        mandatory: False
+        help: Seed for the random number generator
+
+    no_of_packets:
+        property_type: int
+        default: None
+        mandatory: True
+        help: Seed for the random number generator
+
+    iterations:
+        property_type: int
+        default: None
+        mandatory: True
+        help: Number of maximum iterations
+
+    black_body_sampling:
+        property_type: quantity_sampled_old
+        default: "[1, 1e6, 1e6] angstrom"
+        mandatory: False
+        help: >
+            Sampling of the black-body for energy packet creation
+            (giving maximum and minimum packet frequency)
+
+    last_no_of_packets:
+        property_type: int
+        default: None
+        mandatory: False
+        help: >
+            This can set the number of packets for the last run.
+            If set to None it will remain the same as all other runs.
+
+    no_of_virtual_packets:
+        property_type: int
+        default: 0
+        mandatory: False
+        help: >
+            Setting the number of virtual packets for the last iteration.
+
+
+    converge_criteria:
+    property_type : container-property
+    type:
+        property_type: container-declaration
+        containers: ['specific']
+        _specific: ['specific-property']
+
+    specific-property:
+        damping_constant:
+            property_type: float
+            default: None
+            mandatory: True
+            help: Damping constant for convergence behaviour
+
+        threshold:
+            property_type: float
+            default: None
+            mandatory: True
+            help: threshold for convergence
+
+        fraction:
+            property_type: float
+            default: None
+            mandatory: True
+            help: fraction of shells that need to have converged to the necessary threshold
+
+        hold:
+            property_type: float
+            default: None
+            mandatory: True
+            help: >
+                Number of iterations that the simulation needs to run abiding by the convergence criteria
+                before it is considered converged
+
+
+spectrum:
+    property_type: quantity_sampled_old
+    default: None
+    mandatory: True
+    help: Final spectrum sampling
+
+