Re: complex output argument

Bob Marinier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm very new to SWIG, so I apologize if this is a question that gets asked a 
> lot.
>
> I need to wrap the following function for both Java and Tcl:
>
> /*************************************************************
> * @brief Execute a command line command and return the result
> * as an XML object.
> *
> * @param pCommandLine Command line string to process.
> * @param pAgentName Agent name to apply the command line to.
> * @param pResponse The XML response will be returned within this object.
> * The caller should allocate this and pass it in.
> * @returns True if the command succeeds.
> *************************************************************/
> bool ExecuteCommandLineXML(char const* pCommandLine, char const* pAgentName, 
> AnalyzeXML* pResponse) ;
>
> > From what I've read in the SWIG documentation, typemaps.i provides 
> > functionality which would allow me to use primitive types as output arguments.  
> > Unfortunately, in this case I have a complex object.  I don't know anything 
> > about writing typemaps yet, and before I dove into that stuff I wanted to know, 
> > is this going to be easy, or is implementing this going to be very difficult?  
> > The code in question is still in the development phase, so I may be able to 
> > convince the others involved to change the function definition to make things 
> > easier, but being able to wrap this as-is would be ideal.
>
> Thanks,
> Bob
>
> PS Any sort of code or pseudo code would be greatly appreciated!

You don't need to do anything special. It should just work for Java, for TCL as 
well I believe.

William
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