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Unofficial python bindings for Valve's OpenVR virtual reality SDK
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Refine wrapping of certain string functions #67

Open cmbruns opened 5 years ago

cmbruns commented 5 years ago

In the pull request at https://github.com/cmbruns/pyopenvr/pull/66 risa2000 comments:

The original API function has the following footprint:

virtual bool GetDefaultApplicationForMimeType( const char *pchMimeType, VR_OUT_STRING() char *pchAppKeyBuffer, uint32_t unAppKeyBufferLen ) = 0;

I.e. it returns bool and there seems to be no way to figure out the right buffer size, or what the return value means, unless one tries it out. There is also no error value in the function declaration either. So this type of function is not correctly translated (there are more of them).

This one is another non-conforming case:

virtual EVRApplicationError GetStartingApplication( VR_OUT_STRING() char *pchAppKeyBuffer, uint32_t unAppKeyBufferLen ) = 0;

which returns the error code, instead of the buff size. I believe the translator (model) logic, needs some additional test, if either the parameters or the return value, is of "error" type then, issue generate support for it, otherwise, it needs some additional heuristic (hardcoded edge cases :)) to resolve the right footprint.

Another one returning void:

virtual void GetString( const char *pchSection, const char *pchSettingsKey, VR_OUT_STRING() char *pchValue, uint32_t unValueLen, EVRSettingsError *peError = nullptr ) = 0;
virtual bool ExportLiveToBuffer( VR_OUT_STRING() char *pBuffer, uint32_t *pnBufferLength ) = 0;
virtual EVROverlayError GetOverlayTransformTrackedDeviceComponent( VROverlayHandle_t ulOverlayHandle, TrackedDeviceIndex_t *punDeviceIndex, VR_OUT_STRING() char *pchComponentName, uint32_t unComponentNameSize ) = 0;
virtual EVRInputError GetBoneName( VRActionHandle_t action, BoneIndex_t nBoneIndex, VR_OUT_STRING() char* pchBoneName, uint32_t unNameBufferSize ) = 0;
virtual EVRInputError GetOriginLocalizedName( VRInputValueHandle_t origin, VR_OUT_STRING() char *pchNameArray, uint32_t unNameArraySize, int32_t unStringSectionsToInclude ) = 0;
virtual EVRSpatialAnchorError GetSpatialAnchorDescriptor( SpatialAnchorHandle_t unHandle, VR_OUT_STRING() char *pchDescriptorOut, uint32_t *punDescriptorBufferLenInOut ) = 0;