Re: [Swig-user] Naming conflict with generated "_get" functions in Lua

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

On 15 October 2016 at 00:36, Myria <myr...@gm...> wrote:
> I have a struct that looks like this:
>
> %module badname;
>
> struct BadName
> {
>         int a;
>         int a_get() const;
> };
>
>
>
> The problem is that SWIG is generating two functions named
> _wrap_BadName_a_get, causing a compile error in the badname_wrap.cxx
> file.
>
> Is there a way to work around this problem?  Note that there are
> thousands of lines of existing Lua script code that we have that
> expect both cases to work, so changing the Lua side isn't an option.
>

Use the advanced renaming to ignore all methods ending in _get by
adding this at the top of your interface file:

%rename("$ignore", regexmatch$name="_get$") "";

See http://swig.org/Doc3.0/SWIG.html#SWIG_rename_ignore

William