[Insight-users] CableSwig and %rename or %extend

[Zachary Pincus]

Hello,

In trying to spruce up the ITK wrappers, Gaetan and I have repeatedly  
run into the need to the swig directives like %rename and %extend to  
(respectively) rename things like 'operator++' to valid names in the  
target language and to add language-specific methods like '__str__'  
to classes.

Despite the fact that the SWIG version from which CableSwig derives  
supports these directives, it appears that CableSwig silently ignores  
them. Is there any way to get CableSwig to work properly with these  
directives? Failing that, could anyone tell me whether it would be  
easy to modify CableSwig to support this?

Right now, we are "solving" this problem by having a list of patches  
to make to ITK to get optimal behavior -- patches like manually  
adding classes that just call the operators, for example. This is  
clearly not the best solution.

Zach