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Re: Help with Python SWIG bindings and callbacks

From: David James <james82_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:56:59 -0700

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Lawrence Stewart <lstewart_at_room52.net> wrote:
> Lawrence Stewart wrote:
>>
>> Lawrence Stewart wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm playing with the Python SWIG bindings for SVN 1.5.1 and have run into
>>> a brick wall. I want to update a working copy from a python script, and have
>>> a python function callback executed for each item updated. The python code
>>> below hopefully illustrates what I'm trying to do.
>>>
>>> def update_callback(notify, pool):
>>> print "in callback"
>>>
>>> def update(wc, rev):
>>> ctx = svn.client.svn_client_create_context()
>>> ctx.notify_func2 = update_callback
>>> r = svn.core.svn_opt_revision_t()
>>> r.kind = svn.core.svn_opt_revision_head
>>> result_rev = svn.client.svn_client_update(wc, r, True, ctx)
>>> print "result_rev: %d" % result_rev
>>>
>>> The update function does work and my working copy does get updated the
>>> HEAD, but my callback is never executed.
>>>
>>> I'm basing this code on the statement in
>>> http://svn.collab.net/svn-doxygen/group__Update.html that says if
>>> ctx->notify_func2 is not NULL it will be called for each item updated. This
>>> of course may not work or be applicable in Python land... someone please
>>> tell me if this is the case.
>>>
>>> I've tried countless variations of the above code and changing parameters
>>> to the callback, changing the way the callback is assigned to the context
>>> object (I tried following the way it was done in the client.py unit test
>>> file for a different callback type that is used) etc. etc. without success.
>>>
>>> I suspect my problem is that I just don't grok the translation that SWIG
>>> is doing from the C API up into Python and therein lies the problem.
>>>
>>> Any help in understanding what I'm doing wrong or how I can achieve
>>> something equivalent would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>
>> Quick follow up... I just stumbled across this thread that describes what
>> I'm trying to do.
>>
>> http://osdir.com/ml/programming.swig/2003-06/msg00058.html
>>
>> It provided the missing clue I needed to make this work.
>>
>> Apologies for the noise.
>
>
> Ok, so I can now get the callback to fire, but the arguments passed to it
> look like random pointer junk and python coredumps somewhere within the
> svn.client.svn_client_update3() call after having executed the update and a
> few callbacks. Here's the new code:
>
>
>
> def update_callback(path, action, kind, mime_type, content_state,
> prop_state, revision):
>
> print "callback\taction: %d\trev: %u" % (action,revision)
>
>
>
> def update(wc, rev):
>
> ctx = svn.client.svn_client_ctx_t()
>
> #ctx.notify_func = svn.client.svn_swig_py_notify_func
> #ctx.notify_baton = update_callback
>
> ctx.notify_func2 = svn.client.svn_swig_py_notify_func
> ctx.notify_baton2 = update_callback
>
> r = svn.core.svn_opt_revision_t()
> r.kind = svn.core.svn_opt_revision_head
>
> try:
>
> result_revs = svn.client.svn_client_update3([wc], r,
> svn.core.svn_depth_infinity, False, True, True, ctx)
> for result_rev in result_revs:
> print "result_rev: %d" % result_rev
> print "done"
>
> except svn.core.SubversionException, e:
> sys.stderr.write("Error (%d): %s\n" % (e.apr_err, e.message))
> except Exception, e:
> print "Unknown exception"
> print e
>
>
> I've also added some debug printfs to the underlying C functions
> svn_swig_py_notify_func() and svn_swig_py_notify_func2() in swigutil_py.c to
> check which function is being called and if the arguments coming into the C
> function are the same as what is being reported by python.
>

Hi Lawrence,

Have you considered trying out the new ctypes python bindings? I tried
converting your script to use the new ctypes python bindings, and it
seems to work fine. See the example below.

from csvn.core import *
import csvn.wc
svn_cmdline_init("", csvn.core.stderr)
wc = csvn.wc.WC("wc")

def notify_func(obj):
  if obj.action == svn_wc_notify_update_update:
    print "U", obj.path
  elif obj.action == svn_wc_notify_update_completed:
    print "Completed", obj.path

wc.checkout("http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/www/")
wc.update(revnum=32695)
wc.set_notify_func(notify_func)
wc.update(revnum=32696)

The above example works on my machine, and outputs the following:
  U wc/faq.ja.html
  U wc
  Completed wc

The ctypes python bindings are available at
http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/branches/ctypes-python-bindings/, and
should work fine with Subversion 1.5.x. Hopefully they will be
standard in Subversion 1.6.0, but we are still working on a few
finishing touches.

Cheers,

David

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