[Xapian-discuss] int to string TypeError annoyance

[Tim Brody]

On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 14:36 +0000, Olly Betts wrote:
> 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?

I haven't tested this but I expect so.

> > (And besides that it's a very unhelpful error as it has no calling line
> > #)  
> 
> That might be harder to address.

It seems odd to me that SWIG's int typecast wouldn't use Perls SvIV nor
would does it use "croak". Unless I've missed a typemap in the Xapian
code somewhere ...

/Tim.