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0008829VTK(No Category)public2009-04-01 07:412016-08-12 09:55
ReporterJeff Baumes 
Assigned ToJeff Baumes 
PrioritynormalSeverityfeatureReproducibilityalways
StatusclosedResolutionmoved 
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Summary0008829: Add vtkVariant support to wrappers
DescriptionClasses like vtkTable and vtkVariantArray are largely unusable in wrapped languages because they use vtkVariant in methods, so cannot be wrapped. Wrappers should map vtkVariant to a language-specific type.
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Date ModifiedUsernameFieldChange
2009-04-01 07:41Jeff BaumesNew Issue
2010-04-27 19:48David GobbiStatusbacklog => tabled
2010-04-27 19:48David GobbiAssigned To => David Gobbi
2010-04-27 19:57David GobbiNote Added: 0020454
2010-04-27 19:57David GobbiStatustabled => @30@
2010-07-14 22:43David GobbiNote Added: 0021395
2010-07-14 22:43David GobbiAssigned ToDavid Gobbi => Jeff Baumes
2011-06-16 13:11Zack GalbreathCategory => (No Category)
2016-08-12 09:55Kitware RobotNote Added: 0037068
2016-08-12 09:55Kitware RobotStatusexpired => closed
2016-08-12 09:55Kitware RobotResolutionopen => moved

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(0020454)
David Gobbi   
2010-04-27 19:57   
Several steps must be taken to achieve this:
1) obviously the relevant bits of the headers must have the BTX/ETX removed
2) the wrappers must be made able to take vtkSomething parameter types names that aren't derived from vtkObjectBase without choking
3) the individual wrappers must be modified to check for and deal with vtkVariant

We don't want to add another "type" to vtkParse.l if it can be avoided. Instead, we just want to pass the name "vtkVariant" to the wrappers as 0x9 and have the wrappers recognize that, because it has no superclass, it must be dealt with differently from vtkObjectBase derived types.
(0021395)
David Gobbi   
2010-07-14 22:43   
This feature has been added for Python as of June 18, 2010. For Python, the fix was to wrap vtkVariant as its own python type. The issue must be resolved separately for Tcl and Java.
(0037068)
Kitware Robot   
2016-08-12 09:55   
Resolving issue as `moved`.

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