[pygccxml-development] 2 Questions

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

I have two questions that I am surprised I haven't run into before. I 
hope that both have easy answers.

1. Base class virtual ignored, but coming in inside derived class wrappers.

I have a base class and derived class like:

struct Base
{
   virtual const int* getData() const = 0;
};

struct Child : public Base
{ }

struct GrandChild : public Child
{
   virtual const int* getData() const;
}

In my py++ generation script I ignore the getData decl in the Base class 
(and the GrandChild).  But py++ still ends up generating wrapper code 
for getData for the Child class.  To make matters worse, since it is not 
a decl for getData in the Child class I can not ignore it there.  It is 
almost like Py++ is seeing the virtual method and deciding that it needs 
to provide a wrapper for it in Child even though it is ignored in Base.  
Is this a bug in Py++ or is there some way that I can take care of this.

2. The alternative option would be to just wrap the method correctly, 
but how can I wrap returning a memory buffer (array) of arbitrary length?

Is there a way to wrap this method so it will return a const wrapper 
around this data buffer to make it look like a python list?  If so what 
is the easiest way to do it and do I really need to wait for MB's method 
transformer code to do it right?

Thanks for you help.  I am sorry if either of these seems like a really 
basic question, I just haven't run into this before.

-Allen