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4679.3.54 by John Arbash Meinel
Factor out some of the C API code into some helper headers.
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/* Copyright (C) 2009 Canonical Ltd
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 * 
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 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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 * (at your option) any later version.
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 *
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 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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 * GNU General Public License for more details.
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 *
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 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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 * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
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 */
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/* This file contains helper functions for exporting a C API for a CPython
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 * extension module.
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 */
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#ifndef _EXPORT_C_API_H_
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#define _EXPORT_C_API_H_
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static const char *_C_API_NAME = "_C_API";
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/**
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 * Add a C function to the modules _C_API
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 * This wraps the function in a PyCObject, and inserts that into a dict.
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 * The key of the dict is the function name, and the description is the
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 * signature of the function.
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 * This is generally called during a modules init_MODULE function.
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 *
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 * @param   module  A Python module (the one being initialized)
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 * @param   funcname The name of the function being exported
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 * @param   func    A pointer to the function
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 * @param   signature The C signature of the function
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 * @return  0 if everything is successful, -1 if there is a problem. An
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 *          exception should also be set
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 */
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static int
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_export_function(PyObject *module, char *funcname, void *func, char *signature)
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{
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    PyObject *d = NULL;
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    PyObject *c_obj = NULL;
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    /* (char *) is because python2.4 declares this api as 'char *' rather than
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     * const char* which it really is.
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     */
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    d = PyObject_GetAttrString(module, (char *)_C_API_NAME);
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    if (!d) {
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        PyErr_Clear();
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        d = PyDict_New();
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        if (!d)
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            goto bad;
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        Py_INCREF(d);
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        if (PyModule_AddObject(module, (char *)_C_API_NAME, d) < 0)
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            goto bad;
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    }
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    c_obj = PyCObject_FromVoidPtrAndDesc(func, signature, 0);
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    if (!c_obj)
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        goto bad;
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    if (PyDict_SetItemString(d, funcname, c_obj) < 0)
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        goto bad;
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    Py_DECREF(d);
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    return 0;
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bad:
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    Py_XDECREF(c_obj);
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    Py_XDECREF(d);
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    return -1;
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}
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4679.3.55 by John Arbash Meinel
A quick note about how I'd *like* to do things.
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/* Note:
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 *  It feels like more could be done here. Specifically, if you look at
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 *  _static_tuple_c.h you can see some boilerplate where we have:
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 * #ifdef STATIC_TUPLE_MODULE  // are we exporting or importing
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 * static RETVAL FUNCNAME PROTO;
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 * #else
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 * static RETVAL (*FUNCNAME) PROTO;
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 * #endif
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 * 
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 * And then in _static_tuple_c.c we have
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 * int setup_c_api()
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 * {
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 *   _export_function(module, #FUNCNAME, FUNCNAME, #PROTO);
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 * }
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 *
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 * And then in _static_tuple_c.h import_##MODULE
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 * struct function_definition functions[] = {
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 *   {#FUNCNAME, (void **)&FUNCNAME, #RETVAL #PROTO},
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 *   ...
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 *   {NULL}};
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 *
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 * And some similar stuff for types. However, this would mean that we would
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 * need a way for the C preprocessor to build up a list of definitions to be
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 * generated, and then expand that list at the appropriate time.
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 * I would guess there would be a way to do this, but probably not without a
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 * lot of magic, and the end result probably wouldn't be very pretty to
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 * maintain. Perhaps python's dynamic nature has left me jaded about writing
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 * boilerplate....
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 */
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#endif // _EXPORT_C_API_H_