Today I got the Python SWIG wrapper working.
This took several code changes to get it to work smoothly, here are some lessons: std::map & std::vector are better supported than std::list.
The stl interface wrappers (ie for std::vector) want to return a pointer to the templated type. Basically, this means that your generated python code for std::list would have a function like: Player ** PlayerList.get() instead of Player * PlayerList.get(). This is greatly oversimplified, but you get the point.
I’m sure it should be simple enough to fix if the SWIG code can detect that it is already using a pointer type. It comes down to the fact that basically every get in SWIG generated code is a get by reference, so it wants to return a reference to your pointer… The std::string interface wrapper cannot handle pass by reference. Apparently that is not considered a major problem because strings in some languages are immutable.
So, getting void getastring(string &mystring); to work right is a bit of a pain. It creates a String * type that is a little difficult to work with, so I removed the one std::string& that was in the library.
The stl interface wrappers ARE smart enough to handle strings well. So the std::vector::get method returns a String, not a String *. However, std::map is NOT smart enough to handle this. The std::map::get(key) method returns a String *. I worked around this by removing any publicly visible non-string vectors and all maps.
