Redesigned virtual call mechanism and user-facing syntax (breaking change!)

Sergey Lyskov pointed out that the trampoline mechanism used to override
virtual methods from within Python caused unnecessary overheads when
instantiating the original (i.e. non-extended) class.

This commit removes this inefficiency, but some syntax changes were
needed to achieve this. Projects using this features will need to make a
few changes:

In particular, the example below shows the old syntax to instantiate a
class with a trampoline:

class_<TrampolineClass>("MyClass")
    .alias<MyClass>()
    ....

This is what should be used now:

class_<MyClass, std::unique_ptr<MyClass, TrampolineClass>("MyClass")
    ....

Importantly, the trampoline class is now specified as the *third*
argument to the class_ template, and the alias<..>() call is gone. The
second argument with the unique pointer is simply the default holder
type used by pybind11.
This commit is contained in:
Wenzel Jakob
2016-05-26 13:19:27 +02:00
parent 60abf299c6
commit 86d825f330
8 changed files with 113 additions and 33 deletions

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@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ from example.issues import Placeholder, return_vec_of_reference_wrapper
from example.issues import iterator_passthrough
from example.issues import ElementList, ElementA, print_element
from example.issues import expect_float, expect_int
from example.issues import A, call_f
import gc
print_cchar("const char *")
@@ -55,3 +56,19 @@ except Exception as e:
print("Failed as expected: " + str(e))
print(expect_float(12))
class B(A):
def __init__(self):
super(B, self).__init__()
def f(self):
print("In python f()")
print("C++ version")
a = A()
call_f(a)
print("Python version")
b = B()
call_f(b)