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

[Ari Jolma]

Frank Warmerdam kirjoitti:
> 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?

hmm, probably yes

>
>> -- 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.

I'll post a ticket of this

>
>> -- OGR::Layer.CreateField
>>
>> segfault if poField == NULL
>
> Isn't this sort of problem handled by the object-null testing
> that was put in place?

apparently not, ogrlayer.cpp:454 would need a VALIDATE_POINTER, I'll 
make a ticket of that too

Ari

>
> Best regards,


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