[Xapian-discuss] int to string TypeError annoyance
Olly Betts
olly at survex.com
Mon Mar 21 14:36:43 GMT 2011
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:51:41AM +0000, Tim Brody wrote:
> In Perl,
>
> $db->set_metadata( "foo", 10 );
>
> Results in,
>
>
> TypeError in method 'WritableDatabase_set_metadata', argument 3 of type
> 'std::string const &'
>
> It looks like this is thrown by the SWIG
> std::string typemap. Does someone with better SWIG skills than me know how
> to fix SWIG such that it converts the int to a string rather than croaking?
That shouldn't be hard to fix - I'll take a look.
I guess this works fine in the XS bindings because they just coerce the
value to be a string?
> (And besides that it's a very unhelpful error as it has no calling line
> #)
That might be harder to address.
Cheers,
Olly
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