Introspect classes for imports and decorator support

[dselman]

Feature Request 🛍️

Refactor the code to introduce classes to represent imports.

Use Case

Imports are getting increasingly complex (import *, import single type, import multiple types, with aliasing). Before we introduce semver range support for imports we should refactor the code to make imports a first class element in introspect.

In addition we have a need to support decorators on imports.

Possible Solution

Add three new classes:

1. Import (abstract) which extends Decorated, to support decorators on imports
2. ImportAll (for wildcard imports)
3. ImportTypes (for a list of imported types, with aliases)

• Update parser to support decorators on imports
• Refactor AST parsing and validation.
• Refactor ModelFile to use the new introspect classes, maintaining API compatibility.

Context

Working on #931 it is clear that the way we manage imports within ModelFile needs to be refactored.

Detailed Description

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