Re: [pygccxml-development] low level vs high level API

[Allen B. <al...@vr...>]

Roman Yakovenko wrote:

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>This is exactly what I did:
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>1. You needed decls printer, right? You wrote it. This was greate
>piece of source.
>    I put it within declarations and declarations wrappers
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>2. You needed some search algorithm with power of customization of
>search criteria, right?
>   I took Matthias ideas and some code and added it to pygccxml.declarations
>   The first place user will look at, in order to see how can he find
>some declaration, am I
>    wrong?
>  
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I am not so sure about this one.  I think the goal of the high-level API 
should be that the first and generally only place the user looks is the 
high-level API.  That is really the key to having a domain specific 
language, you want the user to only have to use it to do everything they 
commonly need to.  Now to implement that language/interface we could and 
will use code from throughout the codebase.  At least that is the way I 
see it.  comments?

>3. You needed multi-declaration wrapper, right?
>  It took me few days to find out how can we use Python, in order to
>provide best
>  implementation to the class.
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This one surprised me a little because I did not know I needed it. :)

I think the fact that we didn't understand your goal for the *_wrappers 
really caused some confusion about what the goal is for everything 
else.  As it stands now even I am not sure if we really need the 
multi-decl wrapper in the pyplusplus code.  Instead we may just need 
something like it in the high-level API which is where the code will be 
for querying the declarations anyway.

-Allen

>I think that I am not able to design high level API. So please, please
>go ahead and do it.
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>>-Allen
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