[Xapian-devel] C# bindings and string typed return values

[Greg]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 01:06:39PM +0200, Gregory wrote:
>> Generally the bindings work perfectly, except when called from an IIS
>> application and only when the function being called returns a string
>> eg. GetTerm() or GetValue(). Which results in the application pool
>> crashing.
>>
>> Digging into the errors seems to yield the following "Attempted to
>> read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other
>> memory is corrupt."
>>
>> I've done a little research on the topic and found the following
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/370079/pinvoke-for-c-function-that-returns-char.
>> Which suggests that the pinvoke implementation for string/char
>> returning functions isn't implemented in a way that supports CLR calls
>> (at least not in IIS).
>>
>> Is there something I could do to fix that on my end or is it something
>> that needs to be changed in the bindings.
>
> I'm not really an expert, but it sounds to me like it would be hard to
> work around, and should be fixed in the bindings.
>
> If you're able, the best approach would probably be for you to either
> modify the generated code for one of these methods so that it works in
> your environment, or produce a cut-down testcase which fails.  Then we
> can usefully raise it with the SWIG developers.
>
> Cheers,
>    Olly
Sorry I'm resurrecting this topic but I've been doing some debugging /
research on the string topic and it seem the problem is caused by a
change in .NET 4.0 CLR which apparently was fixed in SWIG 2.x see
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2957375&group_id=1645&atid=101645
for more information.

Are there any plans to migrate Xapian to use the latest version of SWIG?

Thanks.