Bug: Unimplemented functions in Workflow Integration API

I'm building a Workflow Integration Plugin and have discovered an issue with the JavaScript API where it connects to the Fusion API

Replication
0) Launch the Sample Project included in the Resolve Developer Documentation
1) Open the JavaScript Console (Cmd + Opt + I)
2) Add an empty Fusion Composition to an empty Timeline

3) In the Sample Plugin's JavaScript Workflow Code, execute:

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const WorkflowIntegration = require('./WorkflowIntegration.node');
WorkflowIntegration.Initialize("com.blackmagicdesign.resolve.sampleplugin");
time = WorkflowIntegration.GetResolve().GetProjectManager().GetCurrentProject().GetCurrentTimeline();
comp = time.GetCurrentVideoItem().GetFusionCompByIndex(1);
tool = comp.FindTool("MediaOut1");


Which raises the Exception:

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Uncaught Error: FindTool: ParseProxyObject - function list is empty
    at eval (eval at Execute (app.js:4), <anonymous>:5:13)
    at Execute (app.js:4)
    at HTMLInputElement.onclick (index.html:51)
eval   @   VM65:5
Execute   @   app.js:4
onclick   @   index.html:51


Likewise, querying GetToolList:

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const WorkflowIntegration = require('./WorkflowIntegration.node');
WorkflowIntegration.Initialize("com.blackmagicdesign.resolve.sampleplugin");
time = WorkflowIntegration.GetResolve().GetProjectManager().GetCurrentProject().GetCurrentTimeline();
comp = time.GetCurrentVideoItem().GetFusionCompByIndex(1);
tool = comp.GetToolList();


or querying GetToolList with a regid:

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const WorkflowIntegration = require('./WorkflowIntegration.node');
WorkflowIntegration.Initialize("com.blackmagicdesign.resolve.sampleplugin");
time = WorkflowIntegration.GetResolve().GetProjectManager().GetCurrentProject().GetCurrentTimeline();
comp = time.GetCurrentVideoItem().GetFusionCompByIndex(1);
tool = comp.GetToolList(false, "MediaOut")


raises:

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Uncaught Error: Execute: Exception occured while performing operation
    at eval (eval at Execute (app.js:4), <anonymous>:5:13)
    at Execute (app.js:4)
    at HTMLInputElement.onclick (index.html:51)


Interestingly, any time that FindTool is called on a Tool that actually does not exist in the Fusion graph,

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const WorkflowIntegration = require('./WorkflowIntegration.node');
WorkflowIntegration.Initialize("com.blackmagicdesign.resolve.sampleplugin");
time = WorkflowIntegration.GetResolve().GetProjectManager().GetCurrentProject().GetCurrentTimeline();
comp = time.GetCurrentVideoItem().GetFusionCompByIndex(1);
tool = comp.FindTool("PeterChamberlainHELPlol")
console.log(tool)
console.log(tool == "")


The function evaluates but returns an empty string!

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""
true


This is almost certainly an API limitation/bug I've stumbled on, which happens to make what I want to do impossible.

My guess is there isn't any glue code between the Lua tables / Python dicts that are supposed to be returned and the Javascript API, since it was made more for Media Management than for Timeline manipulation.

Well, I'm here to say that I'd love some deeper control over the Fusion nodes from the API!

Alternatively, if we could just get access to the Effects tab of a timeline clip from the Resolve API, I could just modify the Macro variables I want to modify from there. Unfortunately, there's no Effects manipulation from the API as it stands (right???)

Best,
Jonny Hyman
http://www.jonnyhyman.com