[C++-sig] Template Functions

[Nicolas Tessore]

Hello, I got along fairly well with Py++ and my project.

My build chain worked out quite nice, first I generate a header file 
that has the typedef-s, sizeof()-s and template function calls:

   /* long list of #includes */

   /* This namespace is not going to be exported */
   namespace NoExport {

     /* Auxiliary function for template export */
     inline void export_obj_templates() {

       Niflib::NiObjectRef CastObj;

     /* Object NiVisController */
       sizeof(Niflib::Ref<Niflib::NiVisController>);
       Niflib::DynamicCast<Niflib::NiVisController>(CastObj);
       Niflib::StaticCast <Niflib::NiVisController>(CastObj);

     /* more objects ... */

     }
   }

(This is one random example object, the CastObj is one generic ancestor 
that is cast into all the children classes.)

Now this behaves as expected. I then use a code generator script that 
catches all the Ref<T> and DynamicCast<T> and StaticCast<T> and renames 
them to:

     NiVisControllerRef
     DynamicCastToNiVisController()
     StaticCastToNiVisController()

Now the problem is: From my perception, pyplusplus should know what type 
the template T should be of. At least for the Refs (ok, they are 
classes) it does. Still the resulting .def looks like this (NVC = 
NiVisController):

bp::def(
     "DynamicCastToNVC"
     , DynamicCastToNVC_function_type( &::Niflib::DynamicCast )
     , ( bp::arg("object") ) );

This is of course an error, it should be:

     DynamicCastToNVC_function_type( &::Niflib::DynamicCast<NVC> )

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Long story short: Why does Py++ not recognize that my functions contain 
templates, and does not put it to the right place?

Thanks,

N.