[gdal-dev] Should we use boolean type at the SWIG interface?

[Frank Warmerdam]

Tamas Szekeres wrote:
> Devs,
> 
> By using boolean type in the SWIG bindings I currently get a number if
> warnings when compiling the generated code:
> http://buildbot.osgeo.org:8500/builders/szekerest-vc71-full/builds/36/steps/csharp-make/logs/stdio
> 
> Since there are no boolean value exposed by the gdal dll I suppose we
> can use integers instead of booleans at the wrappers as well.
> 
> Any objection to relpace 'bool' with 'int' in ogr.i?

Tamas,

I believe it would be simplest to expose boolean results as a int.

I see that the C API already treats the return result of TestCapability()
as an int.  I'm not sure why it was done differently in the swig include
file.

Best regards,
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