Add support for qmk_configurator style aliases (#11954)

* Add support for qmk_configurator style aliases

* add the keyboard aliases to the api data

* add support for a keyboard metadata file

* make flake8 happy

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/python/qmk/cli/c2json.py b/lib/python/qmk/cli/c2json.py
index b9d55ebdbc..a97e212223 100644
--- a/lib/python/qmk/cli/c2json.py
+++ b/lib/python/qmk/cli/c2json.py
@@ -7,12 +7,13 @@ from milc import cli
 import qmk.keymap
 import qmk.path
 from qmk.info_json_encoder import InfoJSONEncoder
+from qmk.keyboard import keyboard_folder
 
 
 @cli.argument('--no-cpp', arg_only=True, action='store_false', help='Do not use \'cpp\' on keymap.c')
 @cli.argument('-o', '--output', arg_only=True, type=qmk.path.normpath, help='File to write to')
 @cli.argument('-q', '--quiet', arg_only=True, action='store_true', help="Quiet mode, only output error messages")
-@cli.argument('-kb', '--keyboard', arg_only=True, required=True, help='The keyboard\'s name')
+@cli.argument('-kb', '--keyboard', arg_only=True, type=keyboard_folder, required=True, help='The keyboard\'s name')
 @cli.argument('-km', '--keymap', arg_only=True, required=True, help='The keymap\'s name')
 @cli.argument('filename', arg_only=True, help='keymap.c file')
 @cli.subcommand('Creates a keymap.json from a keymap.c file.')