Re: [Swig-user] selectively including types in the SWIG interface file from C++ header files

[William S F. <ws...@fu...>]

On 16/02/12 06:49, William S Fulton wrote:
> On 15/02/12 20:54, mtvs wrote:
>>
>> I am a SWIG/JNI n00b and am trying to find a way to pick specific
>> structs/classes from the included C++ header file to generate the Java
>> wrapper code for. In my case, the C++ header file is generated by
>> apache/thrift and has numerous class definitions in it. I want to tell
>> swig
>> to generate the wrapper only for one of the generated types. Using
>> %ignore
>> to skip everything else in the class is very painful because of the
>> number
>> of types I have to add to the ignore list.
>>
>> Is there a better way to do this? Essentially I want something similar to
>> %include which can cherry pick types from the included header.
>>
>> Thanks for helping!
>
>
>
> %ignore ""; // ignore everything - same as: %rename($ignore) "";
>
> // unignore selected class 'Circle' including constructor, destructor
> and a method called 'area'
> %rename("%s") Circle;
> %rename("%s") Circle::Circle;
> %rename("%s") Circle::~Circle;
> %rename("%s") Circle::area;
>
> %include "example.h" // defines many classes including 'Circle'
>
> Take a look at http://www.swig.org/Doc2.0/SWIG.html#SWIG_rename_ignore
> for more on advanced renaming and ignoring. You'll also find a bit more
> info in swig.swg as well as in the CHANGES file entry dated:
> "01/12/2006: mmatus".
Note that the CHANGES entry is out of date. The special variables, like 
%isfunction, are now %$isfunction as defined in swig.swg.

William