[PyKDE] Sip does not wrap static const members of mapped type?

Phil Thompson phil at riverbankcomputing.co.uk
Fri Apr 21 12:26:01 BST 2006


On Friday 21 April 2006 12:02 pm, Jacob M. Burbach wrote:
> On Thursday 20 April 2006 6:15, Phil Thompson wrote:
> > On Tuesday 18 April 2006 5:14 am, Jacob M. Burbach wrote:
> > > I'm wrapping some classes and find that Sip will not wrap static const
> > > members that are defined as a MappedType. Standard types, wrapped
> > > types, and non const members are wrapped ok, just not const mapped
> > > types. This seems like a bug in sip?
> >
> > Yes - should be fixed in tonight's snapshot (although not heavily
> > tested).
> >
> > Phil
>
> Thats seems to do the trick, but introduced another bug(a typo really I
> think). In sipgen/gencode.c, function `generateInternalAPIHeader', there is
> not enough `mname' entries to fill out the format string(needs one more).

Yes - thanks.

> One other question about ownership, and how it gets transferred in regards
> to methods that throw. Basically, If I have method:
>
> void someMethod(Something* s /Transfer/) throw(Whatever);
>
> what happens to the ownership if the method throws? Is it still
> transferred? Do I need to put handwritten code to catch and transfer back?

I'm afraid so, but it's a bit of a can of worms. You need to transfer 
ownership back to the previous owner - but you don't know who that was.

Phil




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