Re: [Pcsim-users] Creating Synapse Templates with Extension Module

[Pecevski D. <de...@ig...>]

Hi Nabeelah,

Can you send me the code of both GenericTestSynapse and 
TestStaticSpikingSynapse?

regards,
Dejan

Nabeelah Ali wrote:
> Hello (again),
>
> So now that creating synapses works perfectly, I wanted to create a 
> template class that I could create other synapses from,
> i.e.
> template<class BaseSyn>
> class GenericTestSynapse : public BaseSyn
> {
> /* SNIP */
> };
>
> and then create a synapse from it:
> class TestStaticSpikingSynapse : public  GenericTestSynapse< 
> GenericStaticSpikingSynapse< GenericCurrentBasedSpikingSynapse< 
> ExponentialDecaySpikeResponse > > >
> {
>   SIMOBJECT( TestStaticSpikingSynapse, AdvancePhase::SpikeDriven )
> /* SNIP */
> };
>
> I tried implementing both the template class GenericTestSynapse and 
> TestStaticSpikingSynapse through the extension module, however, I get 
> a long string of errors when I try to use TestStaticSpikingSynapse in 
> a python model:
>   File "GenericClassTest.py", line 89, in <module>
>     net2.connect (inp_nrn2, n2, inp_s2)
> Boost.Python.ArgumentError: Python argument types in
>     SimNetwork.connect(SingleThreadNetwork, long, long, 
> TestStaticSpikingSynapse)
> did not match C++ signature:
>     connect(SimNetwork {lvalue}, std::vector<long long, 
> std::allocator<long long
> > > src, std::vector<long long, std::allocator<long long> > dst, 
> SimObjectFactor
> y model, ConnectionIterator {lvalue} decider, bool collect=False)
>     connect(SimNetwork {lvalue}, std::vector<long long, 
> std::allocator<long long
> > > src, std::vector<long long, std::allocator<long long> > dst, 
> ConnectionItera
> tor {lvalue} decider)
>     connect(SimNetwork {lvalue}, std::vector<long long, 
> std::allocator<long long
> > > src, std::vector<long long, std::allocator<long long> > dst, Time 
> delay)
>     connect(SimNetwork {lvalue}, long long src, long long dst, 
> SimObjectFactory
> connector)
> etc etc.
>
> However, if I put the GenericTestSynapse class into the /simobjects 
> directory of my PCSIM install, edit CMakeLists.txt to include it, and 
> then do a clean install of PCSIM, my TestSpikingSynapse (still 
> implemented through the extension module) works perfectly.
>
> Is there something I'm doing wrong or is it not possible to implement 
> template classes with the extension module?
>
> Thanks,
> Nabeelah
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