[Feature Request]: Add support for EXTRA_PARTITION_SUBTYPES in Partition Table Editor (VSC-1014)

[IH303]

I have some custom partition subtypes. I defined them as described here using the EXTRA_PARTITION_SUBTYPES property.
E.g.:

idf_build_set_property(EXTRA_PARTITION_SUBTYPES "data, rsa, 0x9a" APPEND)

The ESP-IDF Partition Table Editor does not recognize those custom subtypes (or their names). They are not shown in the drop-down menu. Typing them manually is also not accepted.

It would be great, if I could chose my custom defined subtypes from the drop-down menu instead of typing hex strings.
Currently I also cannot add a custom subtype using hex strings for the type data because it says:

When type is "data", the subtype field can be specified as "ota" (0x00), "phy" (0x01), "nvs" (0x02), "nvs_keys" (0x04), "fat" (0x81), > "spiffs" (0x82) or a range of other component-specific subtypes (0x05, 0x06, 0x80, 0x81, 0x82)"

With the support for EXTRA_PARTITION_SUBTYPES the user could add his own component-specific subtypes for the type data

In short:
Add the possibility to chose custom subtypes defined with the EXTRA_PARTITION_SUBTYPES property from the drop-down menu in the ESP-IDF Partition Table Editor

I hope it is possible for you to implement this feature. Thank you.

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[brianignacio5]

The problem with this is that EXTRA_PARTITION_SUBTYPES is defined in CMakeLists.txt so using a custom partition.csv can't know before the build that these types exists.

Need to discuss with ESP-IDF colleagues about this feature.