Re: [Swig-user] Catching exceptions in call setup

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

Petr Novotny wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I can use the %exception block to catch exceptions from the wrapped C++ function call. However, it doesn't catch exceptions from call setup (e.g., from the code in %typemap(in)). Is there a good universal way to catch those exceptions as well?
> 
> I know I can use try/catch in the typemap. I know I can %ignore the original C++ function, %extend the class with a new function that uses primitive types on its interface and does the conversions internally, and use the service of %exception.
> 
> But is there a more universal way?
> 
Sorry, no. This is something I've often thought should be good to have,
so ought to go into the feature requests.

William