Re: svn commit: rev 4848 - trunk/subversion/bindings/swig

On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 10:21:20AM +0100, Jesper Steen Møller wrote:
> Daniel Rall wrote:
>...
> >Well, we were on a roll with breaking the build and just didn't see a
> >need to stop ... fixed this one in r4866. There may be others.
>
> It is Python specific since it uses "numinputs=0", thus relying on
> t_output_helper to return the result in a tuple.
> In Java, the binding must/should work by returning the output variable
> in a in/out parameter, which is done by using an array of
> SWIGTYPE_p_apr_file_t of length one - SWIG does this automatically, but
> the typemap above overrides (incorrectly).

Ah. Thanks, that clears it up a lot.

> I'm sorry if my patches otherwise broke the build - I hadn't imagined
> that it could hurt the Python binding to add the qualifier.

Nah, it didn't break the build. Dan was just poking fun at himself for an
earlier breakage. I was concerned that the change would eliminate
functionality for the Java code... heh :-)

> I'd better install Python here and test with it in the future.

I wouldn't worry about it, really. We've got Python eyeballs on it if you'd
rather skip the Python stuff and just concentrate on the Java code.

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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