[gdal-dev] Utilities as a library, C API

[Ivan Lucena]

Hi there,


I am trying to use C API defined in gdal_utils.h.


By reading the RFC 59.1 I understand that the SWIG wrappers will have a nice interface to pass the parameters [1], ex.:

          format --- output format ("GTiff", etc...)
          outputType --- output type (gdal.GDT_Byte, etc...)
          bandList --- array of band numbers (index start at 1)
          srcWin --- subwindow in pixels to extract: [left_x, top_y, width, height]

But it seems like for C, the only way to pass the parameters will be by passing "char** papszArgv" in the same fashion as GDAL command line.


That doesn't seems to be fair with poor C programmers like me. We would need to translate things like "format=XXX" to "-of XXX" and "outputType=XXX" to "-ot XXX" for all the options and all the utilities.


The GDALTranslateOptions is opaque [2], so we cannot access it's member either. See commented line and the error message:


       GDALTranslateOptions* psOptions = GDALTranslateOptionsNew( papszArgv, NULL );


//     psOptions->pszFormat = pszOutDriver; // error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type


       hDstDataset = GDALTranslate(
           (const char*) pszOutFilename,
           (GDALDatasetH) hSrcDataset,
           (const GDALTranslateOptions*) psOptions,

           (int*) NULL );


       GDALTranslateOptionsFree( psOptions );


Is there any other way to pass the parameters to the GDAL "Utilities as Libraries" in C?


Thanks,

Ivan


[1] - https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc59.1_utilities_as_a_library

[2] - http://www.gdal.org/gdal__utils_8h.html





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