[vtkusers] is a machine readable list of classes and methods available?

[JTK]

Hello,

I’m trying to make VTK usable from the common lisp language using the Common Lisp CFFI [1] package, translating C++ methods/classes into CLOS methods/classes.

I understand that VTK supports internal automated ways of doing this (used for Python and TCL glue code generation), but these are a bit excessive for my purposes (and specialized).  Other methods like SWIG seem to choke on VTK code - maybe it’s all the macros? Instead, I’ve written a general package for wrapping C++ methods and classes into Lisp to let me hand-wrap VTK classes.

Is there a machine readable list of the C++ class/method hierarchy available?

Something like:

{class: “vtkCylinderSource”
 parents: {“vtkPolyDataAlgorithm”}
 methods: {{method: SetHeight 
            returntype: void
            arguments: {{“height” “double”}}}
           }
}


Or an equivalent in XML.  Or maybe simplified macro-less C++ definitions that I could parse?

Such a list of methods seems to exist implicitly for the documentation, but it isn’t machine readable. Is there a machine readable one, or is there an easy way to make it?

Thanks for any tips,
J.Klein



[1] cffi: https://common-lisp.net/project/cffi/ <https://common-lisp.net/project/cffi/>
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