pybind11/include
Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve e9b961d9b9
Elide to-python conversion of setter return values (#4621)
* Reproducer for property setter with return type that is not wrapped.

* Use `py::class_<OptionsBase>()` to work around the return value conversion issue.

* WIP drop_return_value

* Remove struct drop_return_value

* Introduce `return_value_policy::return_none` for use by setters.

* Add `is_setter` to attr.h and use from `.def_property()`

* Merge the new test into test_methods_and_attributes

* Remove return_none return_value_policy again.

* Fix oversight (NOLINTNEXTLINE placement).

* Simplification (for the better) found while searching for a way to resolve GCC build failures.

Example of failure resolved by this change:

g++ (Ubuntu 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.1) 9.4.0

```
cd /build/tests && /usr/bin/c++ -DPYBIND11_TEST_EIGEN -Dpybind11_tests_EXPORTS -I/mounted_pybind11/include -isystem /usr/include/python3.8 -isystem /build/_deps/eigen-src -g -std=c++17 -fPIC -fvisibility=hidden -Wall -Wextra -Wconversion -Wcast-qual -Wdeprecated -Wundef -Wnon-virtual-dtor -MD -MT tests/CMakeFiles/pybind11_tests.dir/test_buffers.cpp.o -MF CMakeFiles/pybind11_tests.dir/test_buffers.cpp.o.d -o CMakeFiles/pybind11_tests.dir/test_buffers.cpp.o -c /mounted_pybind11/tests/test_buffers.cpp
In file included from /mounted_pybind11/include/pybind11/stl.h:12,
                 from /mounted_pybind11/tests/test_buffers.cpp:10:
/mounted_pybind11/include/pybind11/pybind11.h: In instantiation of ‘pybind11::class_<type_, options>& pybind11::class_<type_, options>::def_property(const char*, const Getter&, const Setter&, const Extra& ...) [with Getter = pybind11::cpp_function; Setter = std::nullptr_t; Extra = {pybind11::return_value_policy}; type_ = pybind11::buffer_info; options = {}]’:
/mounted_pybind11/include/pybind11/pybind11.h:1716:58:   required from ‘pybind11::class_<type_, options>& pybind11::class_<type_, options>::def_property_readonly(const char*, const pybind11::cpp_function&, const Extra& ...) [with Extra = {pybind11::return_value_policy}; type_ = pybind11::buffer_info; options = {}]’
/mounted_pybind11/include/pybind11/pybind11.h:1684:9:   required from ‘pybind11::class_<type_, options>& pybind11::class_<type_, options>::def_readonly(const char*, const D C::*, const Extra& ...) [with C = pybind11::buffer_info; D = long int; Extra = {}; type_ = pybind11::buffer_info; options = {}]’
/mounted_pybind11/tests/test_buffers.cpp:209:61:   required from here
/mounted_pybind11/include/pybind11/pybind11.h:1740:25: error: call of overloaded ‘cpp_function(std::nullptr_t&, pybind11::is_setter)’ is ambiguous
 1740 |             name, fget, cpp_function(method_adaptor<type>(fset), is_setter()), extra...);
      |                         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/mounted_pybind11/include/pybind11/pybind11.h:101:5: note: candidate: ‘pybind11::cpp_function::cpp_function(Func&&, const Extra& ...) [with Func = std::nullptr_t&; Extra = {pybind11::is_setter}; <template-parameter-1-3> = void]’
  101 |     cpp_function(Func &&f, const Extra &...extra) {
      |     ^~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from /mounted_pybind11/include/pybind11/stl.h:12,
                 from /mounted_pybind11/tests/test_buffers.cpp:10:
/mounted_pybind11/include/pybind11/pybind11.h:87:5: note: candidate: ‘pybind11::cpp_function::cpp_function(std::nullptr_t, const Extra& ...) [with Extra = {pybind11::is_setter}; std::nullptr_t = std::nullptr_t]’
   87 |     cpp_function(std::nullptr_t, const Extra &...) {}
      |     ^~~~~~~~~~~~
```

* Bug fix: obvious in hindsight. I thought the original version was incrementing the reference count for None, but no.

Discovered via many failing tests in the wild (10s of thousands).

It is very tricky to construct a meaningful unit test for this bug specifically. It's unlikely to come back, because 10s of thousands of tests will fail again.
2023-05-08 10:13:54 -07:00
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pybind11 Elide to-python conversion of setter return values (#4621) 2023-05-08 10:13:54 -07:00