At the moment there are commands to convert one file format to another, but not
to 'merge' or alter them. Some firmware files are containers which can store
multiple images, each with optional id, idx and addresses.
This would allow us to, for instance, create a DfuSe file with two different
raw files that are flashed to different addresses on the SPI flash. It would
also allow us to create very small complicated container formats for fuzzing.
This can be used by writing a `firmware.builder.xml` file like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<firmware gtype="FuBcm57xxFirmware">
<version>1.2.3</version>
<image>
<version>4.5.6</version>
<id>header</id>
<idx>456</idx>
<addr>0x456</addr>
<filename>header.bin</filename>
</image>
<image>
<version>7.8.9</version>
<id>payload</id>
<idx>789</idx>
<addr>0x789</addr>
<data>aGVsbG8=</data>
</image>
</firmware>
...and then using something like:
# fwupdtool firmware-convert firmware.builder.xml firmware.dfu builder dfu
For containers with multiple images it is sometimes very helpful to know what
file they've been loaded from. This would also allow us to 'explode' the
firmware container into seporate image files on disk.
There's no reason to prevent NULL, and doing so means the caller has to check
before setting the value. Only one subclassed type was actually doing this...