This allows you to use:
cls.def(py::init(&factory_function));
where `factory_function` returns a pointer, holder, or value of the
class type (or a derived type). Various compile-time checks
(static_asserts) are performed to ensure the function is valid, and
various run-time type checks where necessary.
Some other details of this feature:
- The `py::init` name doesn't conflict with the templated no-argument
`py::init<...>()`, but keeps the naming consistent: the existing
templated, no-argument one wraps constructors, the no-template,
function-argument one wraps factory functions.
- If returning a CppClass (whether by value or pointer) when an CppAlias
is required (i.e. python-side inheritance and a declared alias), a
dynamic_cast to the alias is attempted (for the pointer version); if
it fails, or if returned by value, an Alias(Class &&) constructor
is invoked. If this constructor doesn't exist, a runtime error occurs.
- for holder returns when an alias is required, we try a dynamic_cast of
the wrapped pointer to the alias to see if it is already an alias
instance; if it isn't, we raise an error.
- `py::init(class_factory, alias_factory)` is also available that takes
two factories: the first is called when an alias is not needed, the
second when it is.
- Reimplement factory instance clearing. The previous implementation
failed under python-side multiple inheritance: *each* inherited
type's factory init would clear the instance instead of only setting
its own type value. The new implementation here clears just the
relevant value pointer.
- dealloc is updated to explicitly set the leftover value pointer to
nullptr and the `holder_constructed` flag to false so that it can be
used to clear preallocated value without needing to rebuild the
instance internals data.
- Added various tests to test out new allocation/deallocation code.
- With preallocation now done lazily, init factory holders can
completely avoid the extra overhead of needing an extra
allocation/deallocation.
- Updated documentation to make factory constructors the default
advanced constructor style.
- If an `__init__` is called a second time, we have two choices: we can
throw away the first instance, replacing it with the second; or we can
ignore the second call. The latter is slightly easier, so do that.
An alias can be used for two main purposes: to override virtual methods,
and to add some extra data to a class needed for the pybind-wrapper.
Both of these absolutely require that the wrapped class be polymorphic
so that virtual dispatch and destruction, respectively, works.
`function_signature_t` extracts the function type from a function,
function pointer, or lambda.
`is_lambda` (which is really
`is_not_a_function_or_pointer_or_member_pointer`, but that name is a
bit too long) checks whether the type is (in the approprate context) a
lambda.
`is_function_pointer` checks whether the type is a pointer to a
function.
We currently allocate instance values when creating the instance itself
(except when constructing the instance for a `cast()`), but there is no
particular reason to do so: the instance itself and the internals (for
a non-simple layout) are allocated via Python, with no reason to
expect better locality from the invoked `operator new`. Moreover, it
makes implementation of factory function constructors trickier and
slightly less efficient: they don't use the pre-eallocate the memory,
which means there is a pointless allocation and free.
This commit makes the allocation lazy: instead of preallocating when
creating the instance, the allocation happens when the instance is
first loaded (if null at that time).
In addition to making it more efficient to deal with cases that don't
need preallocation, this also allows for a very slight performance
increase by not needing to look up the instances types during
allocation. (There is a lookup during the eventual load, of course, but
that is happening already).
* Doxygen needs `RECURSIVE = YES` in order to parse the `detail` subdir.
* The `-W` warnings-as-errors option for sphinx doesn't work with the
makefile build. Switched to calling sphinx directly.
* Fix "citation [cppimport] is not referenced" warning.
Embedding may well be used in places where hidden visibility isn't
desired. It should be relatively safe to allow it there; any potential
conflict would come in if modules are loaded into that embedded
interpreter, but as long as the modules are compiled with hidden
visibility they shouldn't conflict.
There could still be warnings if the embedded code attempts to export
classes with internal (hidden) pybind members, but that seems a
legitimate warning (and already has a FAQ entry).
This updates the compilation to always apply hidden visibility to
resolve the issues with default visibility causing problems under debug
compilations. Moreover using the cmake property makes it easier for a
caller to override if absolutely needed for some reason.
For `pybind11_add_module` we use cmake to set the property; for the
targets, we append to compilation option to non-MSVC compilers.
This adds a PYBIND11_NAMESPACE macro that expands to the `pybind11`
namespace with hidden visibility under gcc-type compilers, and otherwise
to the plain `pybind11`. This then forces hidden visibility on
everything in pybind, solving the visibility issues discussed at end
end of #949.
In C++11 mode, `boost::apply_visitor` requires an explicit `result_type`.
This also adds optional tests for `boost::variant` in C++11/14, if boost
is available. In C++17 mode, `std::variant` is tested instead.
When Pybind11 is used via `add_subdirectory`, when targets are installed
from the parent project, CMake wants all of the dependencies built by
the project in the same export set. Projects may now set
`PYBIND11_EXPORT_NAME` to have Pybind11 put it targets into the
project's export set. If so, do not install Pybind11's export file.
boost::apply_visitor accepts its arguments by non-const lvalue
reference, which fails to bind to an rvalue reference. Change the
example to remove the argument forwarding.
This udpates all the remaining tests to the new test suite code and
comment styles started in #898. For the most part, the test coverage
here is unchanged, with a few minor exceptions as noted below.
- test_constants_and_functions: this adds more overload tests with
overloads with different number of arguments for more comprehensive
overload_cast testing. The test style conversion broke the overload
tests under MSVC 2015, prompting the additional tests while looking
for a workaround.
- test_eigen: this dropped the unused functions `get_cm_corners` and
`get_cm_corners_const`--these same tests were duplicates of the same
things provided (and used) via ReturnTester methods.
- test_opaque_types: this test had a hidden dependence on ExampleMandA
which is now fixed by using the global UserType which suffices for the
relevant test.
- test_methods_and_attributes: this required some additions to UserType
to make it usable as a replacement for the test's previous SimpleType:
UserType gained a value mutator, and the `value` property is not
mutable (it was previously readonly). Some overload tests were also
added to better test overload_cast (as described above).
- test_numpy_array: removed the untemplated mutate_data/mutate_data_t:
the templated versions with an empty parameter pack expand to the same
thing.
- test_stl: this was already mostly in the new style; this just tweaks
things a bit, localizing a class, and adding some missing
`// test_whatever` comments.
- test_virtual_functions: like `test_stl`, this was mostly in the new
test style already, but needed some `// test_whatever` comments.
This commit also moves the inherited virtual example code to the end
of the file, after the main set of tests (since it is less important
than the other tests, and rather length); it also got renamed to
`test_inherited_virtuals` (from `test_inheriting_repeat`) because it
tests both inherited virtual approaches, not just the repeat approach.
The current `py::overload_cast` is hitting some ICEs under both MSVC
2015 and clang 3.8 on debian with the rewritten test suites; adding an
empty constexpr constructor to the `overload_cast_impl` class seems to
avoid the ICE.
Attempting to mix py::module_local and non-module_local classes results
in some unexpected/undesirable behaviour:
- if a class is registered non-local by some other module, a later
attempt to register it locally fails. It doesn't need to: it is
perfectly acceptable for the local registration to simply override
the external global registration.
- going the other way (i.e. module `A` registers a type `T` locally,
then `B` registers the same type `T` globally) causes a more serious
issue: `A.T`'s constructors no longer work because the `self` argument
gets converted to a `B.T`, which then fails to resolve.
Changing the cast precedence to prefer local over global fixes this and
makes it work more consistently, regardless of module load order.
Types need `tp_name` set to a C-style string, but the current `strdup`
ends up with a leak (issue #977). This avoids the strdup by storing
the `std::string` in internals so that during interpreter shutdown it
will be properly destroyed.
This commit adds a `py::module_local` attribute that lets you confine a
registered type to the module (more technically, the shared object) in
which it is defined, by registering it with:
py::class_<C>(m, "C", py::module_local())
This will allow the same C++ class `C` to be registered in different
modules with independent sets of class definitions. On the Python side,
two such types will be completely distinct; on the C++ side, the C++
type resolves to a different Python type in each module.
This applies `py::module_local` automatically to `stl_bind.h` bindings
when the container value type looks like something global: i.e. when it
is a converting type (for example, when binding a `std::vector<int>`),
or when it is a registered type itself bound with `py::module_local`.
This should help resolve potential future conflicts (e.g. if two
completely unrelated modules both try to bind a `std::vector<int>`.
Users can override the automatic selection by adding a
`py::module_local()` or `py::module_local(false)`.
Note that this does mildly break backwards compatibility: bound stl
containers of basic types like `std::vector<int>` cannot be bound in one
module and returned in a different module. (This can be re-enabled with
`py::module_local(false)` as described above, but with the potential for
eventual load conflicts).
The builtin exception handler currently doesn't work across modules
under clang/libc++ for builtin pybind exceptions like
`pybind11::error_already_set` or `pybind11::stop_iteration`: under
RTLD_LOCAL module loading clang considers each module's exception
classes distinct types. This then means that the base exception
translator fails to catch the exceptions and the fall through to the
generic `std::exception` handler, which completely breaks things like
`stop_iteration`: only the `stop_iteration` of the first module loaded
actually works properly; later modules raise a RuntimeError with no
message when trying to invoke their iterators.
For example, two modules defined like this exhibit the behaviour under
clang++/libc++:
z1.cpp:
#include <pybind11/pybind11.h>
#include <pybind11/stl_bind.h>
namespace py = pybind11;
PYBIND11_MODULE(z1, m) {
py::bind_vector<std::vector<long>>(m, "IntVector");
}
z2.cpp:
#include <pybind11/pybind11.h>
#include <pybind11/stl_bind.h>
namespace py = pybind11;
PYBIND11_MODULE(z2, m) {
py::bind_vector<std::vector<double>>(m, "FloatVector");
}
Python:
import z1, z2
for i in z2.FloatVector():
pass
results in:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "zs.py", line 2, in <module>
for i in z2.FloatVector():
RuntimeError
This commit fixes the issue by adding a new exception translator each
time the internals pointer is initialized from python builtins: this
generally means the internals data was initialized by some other
module. (The extra translator(s) are skipped under libstdc++).
This adds the infrastructure for a separate test plugin for cross-module
tests. (This commit contains no tests that actually use it, but the
following commits do; this is separated simply to provide a cleaner
commit history).
This commit adds a PYBIND11_UNSHARED_STATIC_LOCALS macro that forces a
function to have hidden visibility under gcc and gcc-compatible
compilers. gcc, in particular, needs this to to avoid sharing static
local variables across modules (which happens even under a RTLD_LOCAL
dlopen()!). clang doesn't appear to have this issue, but the forced
visibility on internal pybind functions certainly won't hurt it and icc.
This updates the workaround from #862 to use this rather than the
version-specific template.
Currently types that are capable of conversion always call their convert
function when invoked with a `py::object` which is actually the correct
type. This means that code such as `py::cast<py::list>(obj)` and
`py::list l(obj.attr("list"))` make copies, which was an oversight
rather than an intentional feature.
While at first glance there might be something behind having
`py::list(obj)` make a copy (as it would in Python), this would be
inconsistent when you dig a little deeper because `py::list(l)`
*doesn't* make a copy for an existing `py::list l`, and having an
inconsistency within C++ would be worse than a C++ <-> Python
inconsistency.
It is possible to get around the copying using a
`reinterpret_borrow<list>(o)` (and this commit fixes one place, in
`embed.h`, that does so), but that seems a misuse of
`reinterpret_borrow`, which is really supposed to be just for dealing
with raw python-returned values, not `py::object`-derived wrappers which
are supposed to be higher level.
This changes the constructor of such converting types (i.e. anything
using PYBIND11_OBJECT_CVT -- `str`, `bool_`, `int_`, `float_`, `tuple`,
`dict`, `list`, `set`, `memoryview`) to reference rather than copy when
the check function passes.
It also adds an `object &&` constructor that is slightly more efficient
by avoiding an inc_ref when the check function passes.
The fix for #960 could result a type being registered multiple times if
its `__init__` is called multiple times. This can happen perfectly
ordinarily when python-side multiple inheritance is involved: for
example, with a diamond inheritance pattern with each intermediate
classes invoking the parent constructor.
With the change in #960, the multiple `__init__` calls meant
`register_instance` was called multiple times, but the deletion only
deleted it once. Thus, if a future instance of the same type was
allocated at the same location, pybind would pick it up as a registered
type.
This fixes the issue by tracking whether a value pointer has been
registered to avoid both double-registering it. (There's also a slight
optimization of not needing to do a registered_instances lookup when the
type is known not registered, but this is secondary).
`error_already_set` is more complicated than it needs to be, partly
because it manages reference counts itself rather than using
`py::object`, and partly because it tries to do more exception clearing
than is needed. This commit greatly simplifies it, and fixes#927.
Using `py::object` instead of `PyObject *` means we can rely on
implicit copy/move constructors.
The current logic did both a `PyErr_Clear` on deletion *and* a
`PyErr_Fetch` on creation. I can't see how the `PyErr_Clear` on
deletion is ever useful: the `Fetch` on creation itself clears the
error, so the only way doing a `PyErr_Clear` on deletion could do
anything if is some *other* exception was raised while the
`error_already_set` object was alive--but in that case, clearing some
other exception seems wrong. (Code that is worried about an exception
handler raising another exception would already catch a second
`error_already_set` from exception code).
The destructor itself called `clear()`, but `clear()` was a little bit
more paranoid that needed: it called `restore()` to restore the
currently captured error, but then immediately cleared it, using the
`PyErr_Restore` to release the references. That's unnecessary: it's
valid for us to release the references manually. This updates the code
to simply release the references on the three objects (preserving the
gil acquire).
`clear()`, however, also had the side effect of clearing the current
error, even if the current `error_already_set` didn't have a current
error (e.g. because of a previous `restore()` or `clear()` call). I
don't really see how clearing the error here can ever actually be
useful: the only way the current error could be set is if you called
`restore()` (in which case the current stored error-related members have
already been released), or if some *other* code raised the error, in
which case `clear()` on *this* object is clearing an error for which it
shouldn't be responsible.
Neither of those seem like intentional or desirable features, and
manually requesting deletion of the stored references similarly seems
pointless, so I've just made `clear()` an empty method and marked it
deprecated.
This also fixes a minor potential issue with the destruction: it is
technically possible for `value` to be null (though this seems likely to
be rare in practice); this updates the check to look at `type` which
will always be non-null for a `Fetch`ed exception.
This also adds error_already_set round-trip throw tests to the test
suite.
The instance registration for offset base types fails (under macOS, with
a segfault) in the presense of virtual base types. The issue occurs
when trying to `static_cast<Base *>(derived_ptr)` when `derived_ptr` has
been allocated (via `operator new`) but not initialized.
This commit fixes the issue by moving the addition to
`registered_instances` into `init_holder` rather than immediately after
value pointer allocation.
This also renames it to `init_instance` since it does more than holder
initialization now. (I also further renamed `init_holder_helper` to
`init_holder` since `init_holder` isn't used anymore).
Fixes#959.
Pre-C++17, std::pair can technically have an copy constructor even
though it can't actually be invoked without a compilation failure (due
to the underlying types being non-copyable). Most stls, including
libc++ since ~3.4, use the C++17 behaviour of not exposing an uncallable
copy constructor, but FreeBSD deliberately broke their libc++ to
preserve the nonsensical behaviour
(https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=261801).
This updates pybind's internal `is_copy_constructible` to also detect
the std::pair case under pre-C++17.
This also everything (except for a couple cases in the internal version)
to use the internal `is_copy_constructible` rather than
`std::is_copy_constructible`.
This adds support for implicit conversions to bool from Python types
with `__bool__` (Python 3) or `__nonzero__` (Python 2) attributes, and
adds direct (i.e. non-converting) support for numpy bools.
If a class doesn't provide a `T::operator delete(void *)` but does have
a `T::operator delete(void *, size_t)` the latter is invoked by a
`delete someT`. Pybind currently only look for and call the former;
this commit adds detection and calling of the latter when the former
doesn't exist.
To fix a difficult-to-reproduce segfault on Python interpreter exit,
ensure that the tp_base field of a handful of new heap-types is
counted as a reference to that base type object.
This changes the pointer `cast()` in `PYBIND11_TYPE_CASTER` to recognize
the `take_ownership` policy: if casting a pointer with take-ownership,
the `cast()` now recalls `cast()` with a dereferenced rvalue (rather
than the previous code, which was always calling it with a const lvalue
reference), and deletes the pointer after the chained `cast()` is
complete.
This makes code like:
m.def("f", []() { return new std::vector<int>(100, 1); },
py::return_value_policy::take_ownership);
do the expected thing by taking over ownership of the returned pointer
(which is deleted once the chained cast completes).
PR #936 broke the ability to return a pointer to a stl container (and,
likewise, to a tuple) because the added deduced type matched a
non-const pointer argument: the pointer-accepting `cast` in
PYBIND11_TYPE_CASTER had a `const type *`, which is a worse match for a
non-const pointer than the universal reference template #936 added.
This changes the provided TYPE_CASTER cast(ptr) to take the pointer by
template arg (so that it will accept either const or non-const pointer).
It has two other effects: it slightly reduces .so size (because many
type casters never actually need the pointer cast at all), and it allows
type casters to provide their untemplated pointer `cast()` that will
take precedence over the templated version provided in the macro.
Currently select_cxx_standard(), which sets PYBIND11_CPP_STANDARD when
not externally set, is only called from pybind11_add_module(), but the
embed target setup (which runs unconditionally) makes use of
${PYBIND11_CPP_STANDARD}, which isn't set yet. This commit removes the
`select_cxx_standard` function completely and just always runs the
standard detection code.
This also tweaks the detection code to not bothering checking for the
`-std=c++11` flag when the `-std=c++14` detection succeeded.
In a Debug build, MSVC doesn't apply copy/move elision as often,
triggering a test failure. This relaxes the test count requirements
to let the test suite pass.
The value and holder iterator code had a past-the-end iterator
dereference. While of course invalid, the dereference didn't actually
cause any problems (which is why it wasn't caught before) because the
dereferenced value is never actually used and `vector` implementations
appear to allow dereferencing the past-the-end iterator. Under a MSVC
debug build, however, it fails a debug assertion and aborts.
This amends the iterator to just store and use a pointer to the vector
(rather than adding a second past-the-end iterator member), checking the
type index against the type vector size.
ICC was reporting that `try_direct_conversions()` cannot be `constexpr`
because `handle` is not a literal type. The fix removes `constexpr`
from the function since it isn't strictly needed.
This commit also suppresses new false positive warnings which mostly
appear in constexpr contexts (where the compiler knows conversions are
safe).
This updates the std::tuple, std::pair and `stl.h` type casters to
forward their contained value according to whether the container being
cast is an lvalue or rvalue reference. This fixes an issue where
subcaster casts were always called with a const lvalue which meant
nested type casters didn't have the desired `cast()` overload invoked.
For example, this caused Eigen values in a tuple to end up with a
readonly flag (issue #935) and made it impossible to return a container
of move-only types (issue #853).
This fixes both issues by adding templated universal reference `cast()`
methods to the various container types that forward container elements
according to the container reference type.
The std::pair caster can be written as a special case of the std::tuple
caster; this combines them via a base `tuple_caster` class (which is
essentially identical to the previous std::tuple caster).
This also removes the special empty tuple base case: returning an empty
tuple is relatively rare, and the base case still works perfectly well
even when the tuple types is an empty list.
