[Gdal-dev] Re: A list of things in the wrappers and geom type in ogr

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 10/10/05, Kevin Ruland <kruland at ku.edu> wrote:
> 2)  Passing nulls into methods.  The reason this is allowed by swig (in
> general) is because some c/c++ functions allow null pointers and in fact
> might do something different.  I think we should very likely code checks
> for these conditions.  There are two ways to appraoch it, we can either
> code the tests in every method, or we can code typecheck typemaps which
> can do this for us.

Charlie / Kevin,

On this issue, I am in favor of having the C API do NULL testing
for objects.   I have added this to my TODO list.

Best regards,
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