Re: [pygccxml-development] Exposing templates

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

On 6/19/06, Allen Bierbaum <al...@vr...> wrote:
> How are people generating bindings against template classes using the
> module_builder interface?

It has nothing to do with module_builder. Please read this:
http://www.language-binding.net/pygccxml/design.html

> The old experimental pypp api had a helper method of the ModuleBuilder
> that allowed the user to pass a template type and an alias name.  Then
> when the module builder parse() method was run the module builder would
> automatically generate the needed code to instantiate the template type
> and create a typedef from the template type to the alias so the user
> could use the alias to look up the type later.

You can still achieve the behaviour you want, by creating some
convenient function
on top of create_text_fc function.

> If you are currently exposing template classes with pyplusplus, are you
> currently just manually coding something like this?

Yes. What will force user to learn new API, in order to do something he already
has better way to do? I think the better way is to create C++ header
and then just
to include it. You can even generate it before you invoke pyplusplus.
Obviously you think different, do you mind to share your use case?

> Does anyone have
> any code that could be turned into something reusable to put into
> pyplusplus?

You have a chance to contribute to pygccxml :-).

-- 
Roman Yakovenko
C++ Python language binding
http://www.language-binding.net/