Declarative modeling: add find by name functionality about py-capellambse HOT 4 CLOSED

What do you think about this proposal?

- parent: !find
    type: SystemFunction
    name: brew coffee
  create: ...

Except for type (which is special cased to look at the class), this approach would be extensible to allow filtering for every attribute that a model object could have. For example, if you were searching for a Requirement and you know that its combination of chapter_name and foreign_id makes it unique, you could use:

- parent: !find
    type: Requirement
    chapter_name: Chapter 3
    foreign_id: 7
  create: ...

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very cool! just to stretch it a bit, would it work if we then also search by human-friendly IDs (property value), like owned_property["DB-ID"]: LFNC-0123 ?

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This could become a bit difficult. I was planning on simply using the good ol' attrgetter, which would give us things like owner.name: ... for free, but that doesn't have the necessary logic / complexity for fully custom attribute names (especially ones that are not guaranteed to be Python identifiers). I'll think about that for a little and try to come up with something.

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Implemented with #387.

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