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

[Jacob M. Burbach]

On Friday 21 April 2006 8:00, Phil Thompson wrote:
> 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
Gotcha, I can do the conditional transfers manually, not a big deal. Maybe 
something like a /TransferIf/ flag somewhere in the distant future or 
something, I'll leave that up to you(you've done a great job so far).

Thanks for all the help, I really appreciate it!