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/flash.py b/lib/python/qmk/cli/flash.py
index 173dee3df5..c9273c3f98 100644
--- a/lib/python/qmk/cli/flash.py
+++ b/lib/python/qmk/cli/flash.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ from milc import cli
 import qmk.path
 from qmk.decorators import automagic_keyboard, automagic_keymap
 from qmk.commands import compile_configurator_json, create_make_command, parse_configurator_json
+from qmk.keyboard import keyboard_folder
 
 
 def print_bootloader_help():
@@ -33,7 +34,7 @@ def print_bootloader_help():
 @cli.argument('-b', '--bootloaders', action='store_true', help='List the available bootloaders.')
 @cli.argument('-bl', '--bootloader', default='flash', help='The flash command, corresponding to qmk\'s make options of bootloaders.')
 @cli.argument('-km', '--keymap', help='The keymap to build a firmware for. Use this if you dont have a configurator file. Ignored when a configurator file is supplied.')
-@cli.argument('-kb', '--keyboard', help='The keyboard to build a firmware for. Use this if you dont have a configurator file. Ignored when a configurator file is supplied.')
+@cli.argument('-kb', '--keyboard', type=keyboard_folder, help='The keyboard to build a firmware for. Use this if you dont have a configurator file. Ignored when a configurator file is supplied.')
 @cli.argument('-n', '--dry-run', arg_only=True, action='store_true', help="Don't actually build, just show the make command to be run.")
 @cli.argument('-j', '--parallel', type=int, default=1, help="Set the number of parallel make jobs to run.")
 @cli.argument('-e', '--env', arg_only=True, action='append', default=[], help="Set a variable to be passed to make. May be passed multiple times.")