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

[Phil Thompson]

On Friday 21 April 2006 12:54 pm, Jacob M. Burbach wrote:
> On Friday 21 April 2006 7:26, Phil Thompson wrote:
> > 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
>
> Hmm, I guess I should just leave out the `/Transfer/' and put hand written
> code that only takes ownership if the call succeeds then?

That depends on your library. SIP doesn't have the ability to conditionally 
transfer ownership - for example based on the return value or whether an 
exception was thrown or not (or which exception was thrown). Perhaps it 
should have, but not any time soon.

Phil