[C++-sig] exclude an entire class with pyste ?
Dominique Devriese
dominique.devriese at student.kuleuven.ac.be
Tue Apr 22 14:31:02 CEST 2003
nicodemus writes:
nicodemus> Indeed, that is a "misfeature" of pyste, because it
nicodemus> shouldn't export forward declared classes at all. I
nicodemus> believe the desired behaviour would be to show a warning
nicodemus> in case the user tries to export an forward declared
nicodemus> class explicitly (using "Class"), or silently ignore them
nicodemus> when the AllFromHeader construct is used.
>> I'm not sure if silently ignoring is a good option, since I can
>> imagine that if someone has code like class SomeInternalClass;
>> SomeInternalClass& getClass();
>> doSomething( SomeInternalClass& );
>> he'll want it to be exported..
nicodemus> Certainly, but not with this header, since it doesn't
nicodemus> contain any useful info about SomeInternalClass. The user
nicodemus> will have to export the class from SomeInternalClass.h,
nicodemus> using Class or AllFromHeader constructs, as any other
nicodemus> class.
nicodemus> But If you don't want to use the methods and attributes
nicodemus> of SomeInternalClass, you just want to use functions that
nicodemus> pass the class around, you should use
nicodemus> return_opaque_pointer as a call policy. So your example
nicodemus> would be exported as:
having read up on return_opaque_pointer, I must agree that you're
right, sorry :)
cheers
domi
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