[C++-sig] Re: Custom by value type to python type conversion

[Niall Douglas]

On 5 Nov 2003 at 15:00, David Abrahams wrote:

> > ... and then it goes to NOT call the 
> > FXString_to_python_str::convert() anyway (again, according to 
> > breakpoint). What am I missing? From the examples and list archives,
> > I would have appeared to have done everything!
> >
> > Looking at the internal builtin_converters.hpp, it would seem that
> > there's more that needs to be done, but since that's internal there
> > must be another way?
> 
> I'm guessing this may be a BPL bug, but without a small reproducible
> example it's hard to tell.  You know the drill by now...

I've attached it below. I can tell you that it only occurs when the 
type to be converted is a data member of some class, so obviously 
it's failing to invoke the converter in this situation.

I should mention that my BPL has its invoke.hpp heavily altered which 
while it shouldn't be incompatible, might be. Put it this way: 
everything compiles and works fine here, possibly excepting this.

Cheers,
Niall

python bit:
from TnFOX2 import *
a=GetData()
print a.name
<error>

C++ bit:
#include <string.h>

namespace FX {

// Very simple FXString implementation
class FXString2
{
	char data[256];
public:
	FXString2(const char *str=0) { if(str) strcpy(data, str); else 
data[0]=0; }
	FXString2(const char *str, int length) { memcpy(data, str, length); 
data[length]=0; }
	const char *text() const { return data; }
	int length() const { return strlen(data); }
};

struct MappedData
{
	FXString2 name;
};

MappedData GetData()
{
	MappedData ret;
	ret.name=FXString2("Niall is a teapot");
	return ret;
}
}

#include <boost/python.hpp>

using namespace boost::python;

struct FXString_to_python_str : public 
to_python_converter<FX::FXString2, FXString_to_python_str>
{
	static PyObject *convert(const FX::FXString2 &str)
	{
		return PyString_FromStringAndSize(str.text(), str.length());
		//return incref(boost::python::object(str).ptr());
	}
};

BOOST_PYTHON_MODULE(TnFOX2)
{
	FXString_to_python_str();

	class_< FX::MappedData >("FXMappedData")
		.def_readwrite("name", &FX::MappedData::name);

	def("GetData", &FX::GetData);
}