v0.18.9 - Adds missing ParentChannelNum Property

[magico13]

This pull request introduces updates to versioning, dependency requirements, and enhancements to the pyemvue library's device channel handling. The changes include adding support for a new attribute, parentChannelNum, across multiple methods and classes, as well as updating dependencies and version numbers.

Updates to pyemvue library:

• Version bump: Updated the version in pyemvue/__version__.py from 0.18.8 to 0.18.9.
• Device channel enhancements:
  • Added a new attribute, parent_channel_num, to the DeviceChannel class in pyemvue/device.py. This includes initializing it in the constructor (__init__), populating it from JSON in from_json_dictionary, and including it in the dictionary representation in as_dictionary. [1] [2] [3]
  • Updated the SimulatorChannel class in simulator/models.py to include the parentChannelNum attribute as an optional string.

Dependency updates:

• Updated the pycognito dependency version in pyproject.toml from >=2024.2.0 to >=2024.5.0.

[Copilot]

Pull Request Overview

This PR updates the library to v0.18.9 by adding support for a new parentChannelNum attribute across device and simulator models, and bumps a dependency requirement.

• Adds parent_channel_num in DeviceChannel (init, JSON parsing, dict output)
• Exposes parentChannelNum in SimulatorChannel
• Bumps pycognito dependency and version number

Reviewed Changes

Copilot reviewed 4 out of 4 changed files in this pull request and generated 1 comment.

File	Description
simulator/models.py	Expose parentChannelNum on SimulatorChannel
pyproject.toml	Update pycognito requirement and other deps
pyemvue/device.py	Initialize, parse, and serialize parent_channel_num
pyemvue/version.py	Bump version to 0.18.9

Comments suppressed due to low confidence (1)

pyemvue/device.py:161

• Consider adding unit tests for parsing and serializing parentChannelNum in DeviceChannel.from_json_dictionary and as_dictionary to ensure the new attribute behaves as expected.

if "parentChannelNum" in js: