[IronPython] The Overloading Story, IsolatedStorage (Silverlight)

[David Seruyange]

Hey everyone, 

What is the story on overloading with IronPython? From Michael Foord's IronPython in Action p. 208: 

"[Overloading] largely works seemlessly in IronPython... If IronPython gets it wrong, it's a bug and you should report it on the IronPython mailing list or the issue tracker on the IronPython CodePlex site!"


I've been recently implementing some Silverlight + IronPython and ran into trouble with IsolatedStorage. Specifically, there are overloads for the OpenFile method as follows:

OpenFile(string path, FileMode mode)
OpenFile(string path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access)
OpenFile(string path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share)

In order to open the file for reading, I found that the two parameter version was inadequate: 
ioStorage = IsolatedStorageFile.GetUserStoreForApplication()
ioStorage.OpenFile("foo.text", FileMode.Open) # FAIL

But passing all parameters led to success: 
ioStorage.OpenFile("foo.text", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.Read) #WIN

Interestingly enough, I can succeed in writing to a file when I don't pass a FileShare parameter: 
ioStorage.OpenFile("foo.text", FileMode.Append, FileAccess.Write)

I would assume there would be some issue with incompatibility with the defaults for the parameter assignment but when I use a C# project I can succeed with the stripped down calls to create a filestream in IsolatedStorage. 

Anticipating enlightenment, 

David



      
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