Expose getInputTypes and getOutputTypes for instances too

[slifty]

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Description

We recently made getInputTypes and getOutputTypes static methods (#77) of IAppliance. This is still correct, but since you cannot access static methods from an instance directly, we may want to add some "sugar" to IAppliance and expose non-static versions as well:

For instance something like

getOutputTypes = () => this.constructor.getOutputTypes()

Thoughts? Does this seem like a good idea? This would allow things like this:

const myAppliance = new Appliance()
console.log(myAppliance.getOutputTypes())

As opposed to:

const myAppliance = new Appliance()
console.log(myAppliance.constructor.getOutputTypes())

Relevant Resources / Research

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28627908/call-static-methods-from-regular-es6-class-methods

Related Issues

Issue #77

[slifty]

I'm tempted to close this issue, but with the recent addition of support for dynamic input types this sugar would be even more useful (since the "sugar" could pass the appliance instance's settings automatically).

I think this will probably make sense to include when we go through and do the TypeScript overhaul.