Add support for Eigen::Ref<...> function arguments

Eigen::Ref is a common way to pass eigen dense types without needing a
template, e.g. the single definition `void
func(Eigen::Ref<Eigen::MatrixXd> x)` can be called with any double
matrix-like object.

The current pybind11 eigen support fails with internal errors if
attempting to bind a function with an Eigen::Ref<...> argument because
Eigen::Ref<...> satisfies the "is_eigen_dense" requirement, but can't
compile if actually used: Eigen::Ref<...> itself is not default
constructible, and so the argument std::tuple containing an
Eigen::Ref<...> isn't constructible, which results in compilation
failure.

This commit adds support for Eigen::Ref<...> by giving it its own
type_caster implementation which consists of an internal type_caster of
the referenced type, load/cast methods that dispatch to the internal
type_caster, and a unique_ptr to an Eigen::Ref<> instance that gets
set during load().

There is, of course, no performance advantage for pybind11-using code of
using Eigen::Ref<...>--we are allocating a matrix of the derived type
when loading it--but this has the advantage of allowing pybind11 to bind
transparently to C++ methods taking Eigen::Refs.
This commit is contained in:
Jason Rhinelander
2016-08-03 16:50:22 -04:00
parent 7f9603fe24
commit 5fd5074a0b
4 changed files with 63 additions and 1 deletions

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@@ -27,3 +27,9 @@ double_mat_cm(1) = OK
double_mat_rm(1) = OK
double_mat_cm(2) = OK
double_mat_rm(2) = OK
cholesky1 OK
cholesky2 OK
cholesky3 OK
cholesky4 OK
cholesky5 OK
cholesky6 OK