[vtk-developers] Module interface files

[David Gobbi]

For external documentation generation and external wrapper generation.
I want to be able to document or even wrap a class even though the
developers marked it with WRAP_EXCLUDE.  As an example, I have
a tool that generates xml documentation for all the VTK classes, and
it is meant to document all the classes, not just the wrapped ones.

Even VTK's own python wrappers are already wrapping several files that
are marked WRAP_EXCLUDE, e.g. vtkSparseArray, vtkDenseArray,
vtkVariant, the templated vtkVector class, and several helper classes
like vtkArrayCoordinates that are needed in order to make the vtkArray
classes usable from python.

 - David

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 1:31 PM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, what's your use case? Why do you need to know
> about the existence of non-wrapped classes externally?
>
> I kind of like the fact that classes that are not wrapped are not even
> mentioned.
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 3:30 PM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Why can't paraview be made to check the WRAP_EXCLUDE
>> property for each file?  Adding another list seems messy.
>>
>>  - David
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit
>> <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
>>> Oh! Yea, I'd think that can be fixed. We cannot simply extend the same
>>> list though (since ParaView depends on that now), but I vote for
>>> adding another variable.
>>>
>>> Utkarsh
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 3:12 PM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi Utkarsh,
>>>>
>>>> That is the file that I was referring to.  It only lists classes
>>>> that are not WRAP_EXCLUDE.  In contrast, the VTK 5.10
>>>> Kit.cmake files listed all the classes, not just wrapped ones.
>>>>
>>>>  - David
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit
>>>> <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
>>>>> There is a separate Module-Classes.cmake file that's written out that
>>>>> has all the classes.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 2:16 PM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> The module API files installed in lib/cmake/vtk-6.0/Modules
>>>>>> only list classes that aren't marked WRAP_EXCLUDE.  This
>>>>>> is different from the behavior of VTK 5, which listed all classes.
>>>>>> Is there a reason for this change?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'd prefer if all the classes were listed, with wrap-excluded files
>>>>>> marked as WRAP_EXCLUDE in the file.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  - David
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