[C++-sig] pybindgen add_function_as_constructor

[Robin Gilks]

Robin Gilks wrote:
> Following on from my expanding embedded code thread, I'm making 
> progress in that if I hack the class instantiation in the wrapper that 
> pybindgen produces I can get it all to work.
>
> With that in mind, I'm trying to use add_function_as_constructor but 
> it won't let me use a 'void *' or 'PyObject *' pointer as a parameter. 
> I have to use 'uint32_t *' and then edit the code!!
>
> My generator code looks like this...
>
> testclass = mod.add_class('testclass')
>    testclass.add_function_as_constructor('PyCObject_AsVoidPtr', None, 
> [Parameter.new(''PyObject *', 'instance', transfer_ownership = False)])
> which results in the traceback of...
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "testclassgen.py", line 31, in <module>
>    my_module_gen(sys.stdout)
>  File "testclassgen.py", line 28, in my_module_gen
>    mod.generate(FileCodeSink(out_file) )
>  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pybindgen/module.py", 
> line 839, in generate
>    self.do_generate(sink_manager, module_file_base_name)
>  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pybindgen/module.py", 
> line 721, in do_generate
>    class_.generate(sink, self)
>  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pybindgen/cppclass.py", 
> line 1481, in generate
>    have_constructor = self._generate_constructor(code_sink)
>  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pybindgen/cppclass.py", 
> line 1620, in _generate_constructor
>    overload.generate(code_sink)
>  File 
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pybindgen/overloading.py", 
> line 183, in generate
>    (code_sink,), {}, self.all_wrappers[0])
>  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pybindgen/utils.py", 
> line 124, in call_with_error_handling
>    return callback(*args, **kwargs)
>  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pybindgen/cppmethod.py", 
> line 520, in generate
>    % self._class.name)
> AssertionError: something went wrong with the type handlers; 
> constructors need parameter names, yet no names were given for the 
> class testclass constructor
>
I've found the pybindgen commit for revision 628 and that fixes the 
PyObject problem - got a new one now!! I can't work out the syntax to 
return any sort of pointer for example
    mod.add_method('methodA', ReturnValue.new('uint8_t *'), [])
This is probably me again not understanding the Python side of things - 
how would I return a string otherwise?


I see that some of the fixes are in the NS-3 project as 
pybindgen-0.10.0.630 (I assume this means up to and including commit 
630) but there is no waf included in this project so I can't build it :-(


Again, any help would be appreciated...

Cheers

-- 
Robin


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