[postgis-devel] [PostGIS] #2089: liblwgeom cannot be used through python ctypes

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#2089: liblwgeom cannot be used through python ctypes
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 Reporter:  brushtyler   |       Owner:  strk         
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new          
 Priority:  medium       |   Milestone:  PostGIS 2.1.0
Component:  liblwgeom    |     Version:  trunk        
 Keywords:               |  
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Comment(by darkpanda):

 After seeing this ticket I decided to see what it would take to write a
 similar bit of code using ruby and its FFI extensions, which is basically
 the equivalent of python's ctypes module. I ended up having to write a
 small shim that implemented lwgeom_init_allocators and set up handlers for
 errors and notices. The whole thing clocked in at around 40 lines of code
 in C and the rest can be done in pure ruby at this point.

 Perhaps what could be added on the lwgeom side is a set of functions that
 allow you to set the pointers to lwalloc_var, lwrealloc_var, lwfree_var,
 lwnotice_var and lwerror_var as necessary and have them point to the
 defaults initially. This way you wouldn't need to implement
 lwgeom_set_handlers directly but could set them via a initialization
 function (or functions). GEOS does something similar to this with its
 initGEOS function for setting its error and notice handlers, for instance.

 I'll attach the shim I wrote for ruby at any rate as an example. Basically
 I just load that in and let the ruby code do the rest via FFI.

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