C bindings?

[olafvdspek]

C bindings?

[GoogleCodeExporter]

As ctemplate goes through its 0.9x versions, there will be API changes.  They 
should
settle down as we get closer to 1.0, which may make adding C bindings less work 
than
it would be now.

I appreciate your offer to add C bindings!  I feel the API for ctemplate is 
pretty
wide, with lots of different data structures running around, and the C bindings 
would
be not as clean as they might be.  However, the basic functionality of just 
creating
dictionaries and expanding them -- ignoring issues of writing custom modifiers, 
say
-- might not be too bad.  Feel free to take a shot at it, either now or closer 
to
1.0, if you're so motivated, and post the patch here!

Original comment by [email protected] on 25 Aug 2008 at 8:48

• Added labels: Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Type-Defect

[GoogleCodeExporter]

The APIs are getting pretty settled as we approach ctemplate 1.0, and while C 
bindings for the full range of ctemplate functionality may not be feasible, 
bindings for the common use cases are easier than ever (since lots of work is 
done in free functions now).

I think it would be pretty straightforward to provide C wrappers to 
ExpandTemplate -- you'd probably have to leave out the ExpandEmitter, and you'd 
probably have to take a const char* rather than a TemplateString -- and 
LoadTemplate and StringToTemplateCache.  Then all you really need is a C 
interface to TemplateDictionary and you're set.  That last bit would, 
admittedly, involve quite a few functions, but the APIs are not very C++-y, so 
it should be fairly easy to do.  The hardest part might be coming up with good 
names.

If you do want to provide a patch, please also provide a test suite that tests 
all the new functions you're providing!

Original comment by [email protected] on 22 Sep 2010 at 8:03

[GoogleCodeExporter]

It's been a few years now.  We don't have any plans to do this ourselves, so 
I'll close the bug WillNotImplement.  But if anyone is motivated, feel free to 
reopen this issue with the appropriate patches!

Original comment by [email protected] on 26 Aug 2011 at 1:28

• Changed state: WontFix