What Is The Cleanest Way to Call A Python Function From C++ with a SWIG Wrapped Object

Question

I have the following code, which implements a simple C++ class (ObjWithPyCallback) with a Python callback function. The idea is to call the Python function with \"this\" as the

Answer 1

1. General idea of solve the problem:

(1). Define a C++ class named Callback, which has a method run().

(2). Inherit Callback in Python code, and create a instance.

(3). Use C++ method to bind the instance to C++ pointor.

(4). Use the pointor to access run(), which is defined in python code.

2. Sample code

(1). example.h

class Callback{
    public:
    virtual void run(int n);                                                                                                                                                      
    virtual ~Callback() {}; 
};   
extern Callback * callback;
extern void doSomeWithCallback();
extern void setCallback(Callback * cb);

(2). example.cxx

#include 
#include "example.h"

int n=0;
Callback * callback = NULL;

void Callback::run(int n){ 
    std::cout << "This print from C++: n = " << n << std::endl;
}    

void setCallback(Callback * cb){
    callback = cb; 
}    

void doSomeWithCallback(){
    if(callback == NULL){
        std::cout << "Must set callback first!" << std::endl;
    }else{
        callback->run(n++);
    }                                                                                                                                                                                         
}

(3). example.i

/* File : example.i */                                                                                                                                                                        
%module(directors="1") example
%{
#include "example.h"                                                                                                                                                                          
%}

/* turn on director wrapping Callback */
%feature("director") Callback;

%include "example.h"

3. Compile

$ swig -c++ -python example.i
$ g++ -c -fPIC example.cxx example_wrap.cxx -I/usr/include/python2.7/
$ g++ -shared example.o example_wrap.o -o _example.so

4. Use in python shell

In [1]: import example

In [2]: example.doSomeWithCallback()
Must set callback first!

In [3]: callback = example.Callback()

In [4]: example.setCallback(callback)

In [5]: example.doSomeWithCallback()
This print from C++: n = 0

In [6]: class Callback(example.Callback):
   ...:     def run(self, n):
   ...:         print 'This print from Python: n =', n
   ...:         

In [7]: callback =  Callback()

In [8]: example.setCallback(callback)

In [9]: example.doSomeWithCallback()
This print from Python: n = 1

5. Other

I think there's more thing you need. Try:

$ ls swig-x.x.x/Examples/python