[pygccxml-development] Re: typedef lookup feature from long ago...

[Roman Y. <rom...@gm...>]

On 5/31/06, Allen Bierbaum <al...@vr...> wrote:
> Roman:
>
> Taking into account that you will be out of contact soon, there is one
> feature I know I am going to need that I used in the old prototype API.
> I must apologize that I don't remember the exact details, but what it
> boiled down to was being able to lookup a full resolved type from a typedef.
>
> So if I had something like:
>
> typedef really_complex< nested<int>, ugly<long>, 56> simple_t;
>
> I would need to be able to look it up from simple_t to get the type
> information.  It is the mTypeDefMap inside the old pypp_api (it is still
> in experimental).
>
> The code to look at is in parse() at the end:
>
>       typedef_decls = declarations.make_flatten(parsed_decls)
>       typedef_decls = decls = filter( lambda x: (isinstance( x,
> declarations.typedef_t ) and
>                                                  not
> x.name.startswith('__') and
>                                                  x.location.file_name !=
> "<internal>")
>                                       , typedef_decls )
>
>       self.mTypeDefMap = {}
>       for d in typedef_decls:
>          type_def_name = d.name
>          full_name = declarations.full_name(d)
>          if full_name.startswith("::"):    # Remove the base namespace
>             full_name = full_name[2:]
>          real_type_name = d.type.decl_string
>          if real_type_name.startswith("::"):    # Remove base namespace
>             real_type_name = real_type_name[2:]
>          self.mTypeDefMap[full_name] = real_type_name
>
>
> So my question is, do I have another "easy" way to do this with the
> current API?

Typedef class has 2 properties: name and type. I believe type is what
you are looking for.

> I probably won't need it until this weekend or the beginning of next
> week, but if you are going to get busy I wanted to ask before you have
> better things to do then answer e-mails from pesky people like me. :)

:-)

> -Allen
>
>


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