ManageIQ/binary_struct

Deprecate definition format in favor of Hash or associative Arrays

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#10 opened on May 22, 2015

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Extracted from #7 ...

Note that for the next major version we may want to deprecate the "backwards" format. We still need associative Arrays for if you want multiple nil keys, but I think just supporting Hash and associative Arrays makes the code much simpler. The current definition format feels "backwards"

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Investigate current usage of the 'backwards' definition format in the codebase, design a deprecation warning, and update documentation and tests to support Hash and associative arrays.
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