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

[Olly Betts]

On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 05:16:13PM +0200, Greg wrote:
> Just an update on the issue, I've been able to solve it by adding the
> needed code from the SWIG generator (the new version) to the current
> output (XapianPINVOKE.cs). Since Xapian uses own version of SWIG it

Actually, we use svn:externals to pull in a particular revision of the
SWIG source tree from their repository, but we could make that a local
copy with patches - we did this on the 1.0 branch to allow us backport
some fixes.

> might be worth to just update that specific generating template in
> this case (csharphead.swg); it's a standalone and localized change
> that will only effect C# (around 3 rows of code) so might be a worthy
> short term goal.

Glad you've found a good way to resolve this easily.

Could you attach a patch for the change you made to SWIG to the ticket:

http://trac.xapian.org/ticket/538

Cheers,
    Olly