Re: [Swig-devel] [java] Change no -package error to warning

[Brant K. K. <bk...@tr...>]

Another possible solution is to add a command line parameter that 
disables this error. The documentation for which would explain the 
requirements for successfully using %nspace without -package.

Brant

On 1/8/13 10:25 AM, Brant K. Kyser wrote:
> Currently, swig produces and error when generating java wrappers when 
> %nspace is used without specifying a top level package with -package. 
> With the project on which I am working, it is undesirable to have a 
> single top level package. I have found that I can use %nspace without 
> -package as long as I use %nspace for all of my types exposed using 
> swig and specify the JNI class's package using %pragma(java) 
> jniclasspackage=PackageInWhichIWantTheJniCode. Doing these two things 
> ensures that all of the generated Java code ends up in a package which 
> avoids the issue of java types declared in a named package cannot 
> access types in an unnamed package described in 24.3.31 of the Swig 
> documentation.
>
> What I would like to do is change the error produced when %nspace is 
> used without -package to a warning describing the limitations of doing 
> so. Thoughts?
>
> Brant
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