RAYX-CORE in python

[ichinii]

This issue can be used to specify our tasks related to upcoming python bindings. Don't hesitate to add ideas and thoughts.

First we need to port things

• expose RAYX-CORE API to python
• design model is fully mutable within python
• sanity check: port TerminalApp to python. Maybe even replace terminal app completely
• documentation with a few examples

Then we can think about ways to improve our API now that we have python

• user could inject python code via std::funcion on c++ side.
• setting up beamlines from within python should be easy to do. what functionallity do we need to make it easy?
• Looper-like behavior from RAY-UI should be easy to do in python for users
• we should meet the requirements for a good workflow for machine learning applications. To be further specified...
• since we are in python already, plotting should be straightforward. Maybe we can add some useful plotting functions.
• would be great if we can get a REFLEC-like workflow going. e.g. Many different variants of a beamline, but trace just one ray on each. This might require some additional features in RAYX-CORE.
• user could import rml beamline and edit it on the fly in python
• user could do beamline creation/design phase in python and export to rml to persist the beamline
• maybe one wants to both use the GUI and python in design phase. we could think about ways to allow such workflow