Re: [Swig-user] idea for GSOC - An Objective C wrapper over C++ using SWIG

[William S F. <ws...@fu...>]

The ii member is private, so why is it put into the obective-c 
interface? I was really asking for all the code required for the 
marshalling from C++ to objective-c and vice versa?

Ashish Sharma wrote:
> forgot replying to all... 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Ashish Sharma <ash...@gm... 
> <mailto:ash...@gm...>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Fulton!
> 
>     For this class, the interface would look as below:
> 
>     @interface Foo 
> 
>     {
> 
>     int ii;
> 
>     }
> 
>     - (id) init: (int) i;  // id is like void*, and init is a formal
>     constructor for any class
> 
>     - (int) getl; // there are no const functions in objective c as yet
> 
>     + (Foo*) makeFoo: (int) i; // + for static, - for instance member
>     function
> 
>     + (void) modify: (Foo*) f (int)i; 
> 
> 
>     @end
> 
> 
> 
>     On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:24 AM, William S Fulton
>     <ws...@fu... <mailto:ws...@fu...>> wrote:
> 
>         Ashish Sharma wrote:
> 
>             Hi all!
> 
>             I am a computer science graduate student at University of
>             Minnesota -Twin Cities and I am willing to discuss a project
>             idea for SWIG Google summer of code.
>             I have an idea to build an objective C wrapper generator
>             over C++ using SWIG i.e obj-c as the target language to
>             SWIG. This  could be extended to, for example, automatically
>             generating Objective C interfaces over MICO
>             <http://www.mico.org> CORBA bindings. I have done this once
>             with my self-written code generation framework but that is
>             owned by the company I worked with plus since that framework
>             was in Perl it was difficult to share it and maintain it.
>             SWIG seems to be a mature generator meant specifically for
>             wrapper and interface generation so it provides an exactly
>             ground for this idea. Doing this would essentially mean that
>             objective c users would have a descent CORBA solution
>             available in objective C with powerful MICO c++ bindings
>             underneath - a combination not yet available.
> 
> 
>             I have discussed this idea on the swig-gsoc IRC channel and
>             was given the suggestion to post this idea here. Could I get
>             some thoughts of experts/mentors on this group about this
>             project. I would appreciate any suggestions/ideas on this.
> 
>         I understand that Objective C is used a lot in Mac OSX
>         programming. We'd be interested in hearing from any Mac people
>         who would find having Objective C wrappers useful and if anyone
>         familiar with Objective C could help bring this to life by using
>         their Objective C skills in mentoring this project (for which
>         there is a payment).
> 
>         Ashish, do you have a use case, how would it work? Say the
>         following C++ code needs to be made available to Objective C
>         users, what would the interface code look like?
> 
>         class Foo {
>          int ii;
>         public:
>          Foo(int i) : ii(i) {}
>          int getI() const {
>            return ii;
>          }
>          static Foo* makeFoo(int i) {
>            return new Foo(i);
>          }
>          static void modify(Foo& f, int i) {
>            f.i = i;
>          }
>         };
> 
>         William
> 
> 
>