remove preprocessing of fallback names

and simplify API usage.

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 Below are the most important changes from each release.
 
+## 0.2.0 (2022-Mar-14)
+  - Remove pre-processing of fallback names and simplify API
+
 ## 0.1.1 (2022-Mar-14)
   - Fix typos on cursive and monospace axes descriptions.
   - Remove space characteres from fallback name entries of all axes. (issue #7)

Lib/axisregistry/__init__.py

@@ -19,11 +19,8 @@ def AxisRegistry():
         return message
 
     def append_AxisMessage(path):
-        axis_dict = {"message": get_Protobuf_Message(AxisProto, path),
-                     "fallbacks": {}}
-        for fb in axis_dict["message"].fallback:  # pylint: disable=E1101
-            axis_dict["fallbacks"][fb.name] = fb.value
-        registry[axis_dict["message"].tag] = axis_dict  # pylint: disable=E1101
+        axis = get_Protobuf_Message(AxisProto, path)
+        registry[axis.tag] = axis  # pylint: disable=E1101
 
     for axis in ["casual.textproto",
                  "cursive.textproto",

tests/test_axisregistry_api.py

@@ -4,12 +4,10 @@ from axisregistry import AxisRegistry
 def test_AxisRegistry():
     registry = AxisRegistry()
     assert 'GRAD' in registry.keys()
-    assert 'message' in registry['GRAD']
-    assert 'fallbacks' in registry['GRAD']
     for axis_tag in registry.keys():
         assert len(axis_tag) == 4
-        for f in range(len(registry[axis_tag]["message"].fallback)):
-            fallback = registry[axis_tag]["message"].fallback[f]
+        for f in range(len(registry[axis_tag].fallback)):
+            fallback = registry[axis_tag].fallback[f]
 
             # fallback names should not be space-separated.
             # (see: https://github.com/googlefonts/axisregistry/issues/7)