[Gdal-dev] Testing arguments in the swig-bindings

[Frank Warmerdam]

Ari Jolma wrote:
> -- MajorObject.SetDescription

Ari,

For the many string arguments that are required to be non-NULL,
can we have a swig typemap for "non-null-string" arguments
to catch this?

> -- Band.ComputeBandStats
> 
> setting nSampleStep == 0 causes an eternal loop

The C++ ComputeBandStats() code should validate this
parameter and issue a runtime error for dangerous values.

> -- OGR::Layer.CreateField
> 
> segfault if poField == NULL

Isn't this sort of problem handled by the object-null testing
that was put in place?

Best regards,
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