Re: [Swig-user] need help with typemaps (Java /C++)

[Jesper E. <je...@es...>]

2007/2/28, William S Fulton <ws...@fu...>:
> You could modify your c++ interface to be more accurate for the intended
> usage by using an operator bool() instead as then the default mapping
> works exactly as you want in Java (and C++ of course). Alternatively you
> can use %extend to add in a method to check the validity:
>
> %extend Foo {
>   bool isValid() { return *$self ? true : false; }
> }
>
> and just %ignore the original operator void*.
>
> If this design pattern occurs over and over again, it would be worth
> putting the effort into writing the typemaps instead though.

Ok, thanks for the advice.

-- 
/Jesper