I'm trying to use a COM object and i'm having problem with the parameter type VARIANT*. I can use the functions of the COM object just fine, except when they have a parameter of this type.
The doc generated by generateDocumentation is :
QVariantList params = ...
object->dynamicCall("GetRanges(int,int,int&, QVariant&)", params);
According to the doc provided with the COM object, the parameters should be of type LONG, LONG, LONG* and VARIANT*, and it is precised that the VARIANT* is a pointer to a VARIANT containing an array of BSTR.
I should normally be able to retrieve the third and fourth parameter (of type LONG* and VARIANT*), and their values are not used by the function.
Here is my code (a and b are int previously initialized):
QStringList sl;
QVariantList params;
int i = -1;
params << QVariant (a);
params << QVariant (b);
params << QVariant (i);
params << QVariant (sl);
comobject->dynamicCall("GetRanges(int,int,int&,QVariant&)",params);
sl = params[3].toStringList();
i = param[2].toInt();
Now with that code, all i get is an error QAxBase: Error calling IDispatch member GetRanges: Unknown error, which is not very helpful.
I tried to change some things and I managed to progress (sort of) by using this code :
QStringList sl;
QVariant v = qVariantFromValue(sl);
QVariantList params;
int i = -1;
params << QVariant (a);
params << QVariant (b);
params << QVariant (i);
params << qVariantFromValue((void*)&v);
comobject->dynamicCall("GetRanges(int,int,int&,QVariant&)",params);
sl = params[3].toStringList();
i = param[2].toInt();
It gets rid of the error, and the value of i is correct at the end, but sl is still empty. And I know it should not be, because I have a sample demo in C# that works correctly.
So if anyone has an idea on how to make it works...
Otherwise I looked around a bit and saw that it was also possible to query the interface ans use it directly, but I didn't understand much, and I'm not sure it will solve my problems.
I'm on a Windows7 64 bits platform, and I'm using msvc2012 as compiler. I'm using Qt 5.1.0 right now, but it didn't work in the 5.0.2 either.
I guess you really can't do it with dynamicCall.
I finally found how to do it. It was easier than I'd thought. With the installation of Qt comes a tool called dumpcpp. Its full path for me was C:\Qt\Qt5.1.0x86\5.1.0\msvc2012\bin\dumpcpp.exe (obviously depends on settings). You can just add the bin folder to your path to make it easier to use.
Then I went into my project folder and executed this command :
dumpcpp -nometaobject {00062FFF-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} (the CLSID is just for the example, not the one I used)
It creates a header file, you can include it in the file where you're trying to use the COM Object.
In this file in my case there was two classes (IClassMeasurement and ClassMeasurement) in a namespace (MeasurementLib). Again, the names are not the real ones.
In your initial project file, you can call the desired function like this :
MeasurementLib::ClassMeasurement test; //Do not use IClassMeasurement, you only get write access violations
QVariant rangesVar;
int p1 = 0;
int p2 = 0;
int p3 = 0;
test.getRanges(p1,p2,p3,ranges);
QStringList ranges = ranges.toStringList();
Hopes that it helps someone !
Related
I have a DLL that I need to handle in C++. I'm using WxWidgets (standard compilation, but I also tried Unicode on/off) and NetBeans. I also tried dealing with this without WxWidgets (windows.h) and had same problems.
Here is how I access the DLL functions using WxWidgets:
// -------------------- POINTERS TO FUNCTIONS
typedef bool(*TYPE_DLL_SetLicense)(char*, char*);
typedef bool(*TYPE_DLL_PingConnection)(char*);
typedef char*(*TYPE_DLL_ERR_DESCRIPTION)(void);
class DLL_Library
{
public:
// pointers to functions inside dll
TYPE_DLL_SetLicense DLL_SetLicense; //initialize - will wor fine as it returns only true/false (buffer only provide data)
TYPE_DLL_PingConnection DLL_PingConnection; //ping to serwer. Will return trahs, becouse it uses buffer to provide data ang get answear back
TYPE_DLL_ERR_DESCRIPTION DLL_ERR_DESCRIPTION; //error description. No buffer, no trouble. Returns correct string.
wxDynamicLibrary dynLib2;
int initialize(void)
{
//patch to dll
wxString path = wxStandardPaths::Get().GetExecutablePath().BeforeLast('\\') + _("\\DLL_dll\\DLLMOK.dll");
if(!wxFile::Exists(path)) return -1;
//load dll
if(!dynLib2.Load(path)) return -2;
//Assign functions in dll to variable
DLL_SetLicense=(TYPE_DLL_SetLicense) dynLib2.GetSymbol(wxT("DLL_SetLicense"));
DLL_PingConnection=(TYPE_DLL_PingConnection) dynLib2.GetSymbol(wxT("DLL_PingConnection"));
DLL_ERR_DESCRIPTION=(TYPE_DLL_ERR_DESCRIPTION) dynLib2.GetSymbol(wxT("DLL_ERROR_DESCRIPTION"));
return 0;
}
};
And here is the function I run. It should return and XML content, that I try to save to the file.
//DLL_PingConnection
//result ping to be save in file
wxFile file_ping_xml;
plik_ping_xml.Open(wxT("C:\\dll\\ping.xml"),wxFile::write);
char buffor_ping_xml[2000];
//I run the function here
bool is_ping = DLL_PingConnection(buffor_ping_xml);
if(is_ping)
{
tex_box->AppendText(wxT("DLL_PingConnection True\n"));
//we save result to file
bool is_write_ping_ok = file_ping_xml.Write(buffor_ping_xml,2000);
if (is_write_ping_ok){tex_box->AppendText(wxT("Save to file is ok ok\n"));}
else {tex_box->AppendText(wxT("Save to file failed :( \n"));}
}
else
{
tex_box->AppendText(wxT("DLL_PingConnection False\n"));
}
std::cout << "Error description: " << DLL_ERR_DESCRIPTION() << "\n"; //will work fine both in saving to file, and in streaming to screen.
The problem is that inside the file instead of good content I get rubbish like this:
NOTE that this only happens in functions that use buffers like:
char buffer[2000] //buffer will contain for example file xml
function do_sth_with_xml(buffer) //buffer containing xml will (should) be overwriten with xml results of the function - in our case DLL_PingCONNECTION should save in buffer xml with connection data
Documentation say that the DLL operates on Windows-1250. File ping.xml I have set to windows ANSI, but I don't think problem lies here.
EDIT: I have written problem without WxWidgets (I load DLL using windows.h) - same problems. Here is the code: Getting trash data in char* while using it as buffer in function . Please help :(
This
DLL_PingConnection=(TYPE_DLL_PingConnection)
shouldn't it be
DLL_PingConnection=(TYPE_DLL_PingConnection) dynLib2.GetSymbol(wxT("DLL_PingConnection"));
?
seems otherwise you will not get a valid pointer to the function in the DLL.
as a general rule you should check return values, especially from a DLL
you load dynamically since it happens that you sometimes get another version
of the DLL which may have a function with same name but other signature or
where is missing entirely.
You named a function
DLL_PingConnection=(TYPE_DLL_PingConnection) dynLib2.GetSymbol(....
and call it with
OSOZ.OSOZ_PingConnection(buffor_ping_xml);
you typedef a function
typedef bool(*TYPE_DLL_PingConnection)(char*);
you create a variable
char buffor_ping_xml[2000];
in your typedef it is char* and your buffor_ping_xml is char
how can that work ?
try
char *buffor_ping_xml = new char[2000];
/* or */
wchar_t *buffor_ping_xml = new wchar_t[2000];
/* or */
wxChar *buffor_ping_xml = new wxchar[2000];
bool is_ping = DLL_PingConnection(buffor_ping_xml);
wxString mystring = wxString::FromUTF8(buffor_ping_xml);
write mystring to file.
To Do:
look in your wxwidgets\libs folder for your libs
are there libwxmsw29ud_* with a 'u' in the name (after version number here 29)?
If not You can not use unicode
If yes next steps
for all different test char *, wchar_t *, wxChar * give the files different name.
for example file_ping_xml.Open(wxT("C:\dll\ping_w_t_FromUTF8.xml"), ...
for wchar_t * in combination with
wxString mystring = wxString::FromUTF8(buffor_ping_xml);
also in combination with
wxString mystring(buffor_ping_xml);
Then check out the look like, of the files in a browser .
To test you can go to your wxWidgets sample folder . Compile in the folder C:\wxWidgets\samples\docview\docview.cpp . Open with docview.exe a unicode file . How does it look.
Unicode download file
Unicode-related compilation settings
You should define wxUSE_UNICODE to 1 to compile your program in Unicode mode. This currently works for wxMSW, wxGTK, wxMac and wxX11. If you compile your program in ANSI mode you can still define wxUSE_WCHAR_T to get some limited support for wchar_t type.
Here is answear: Getting trash data in char* while using it as buffer in function.
Thanks everyone - expecially for patience.
I am trying to create custom tcl channel and use it to get the output of tcl Interpreter. I added the implementation of few function of Tcl_ChannelType but I am getting segfault.
#include <tcl.h>
#include <iostream>
int driverBlockModeProc(ClientData instanceData, int mode) {
std::cout << "driverBlockModeProc\n";
return 0;
}
int driverCloseProc(ClientData instanceData, Tcl_Interp *interp) {
std::cout << "driverCloseProc\n";
return 0;
}
int driverInputProc(ClientData instanceData, char* buf, int bufSize, int *errorCodePtr) {
std::cout << "driverInputProc\n";
return 0;
}
int driverOutputProc(ClientData instanceData, const char* buf, int toWrite, int *errorCodePtr) {
std::cout << "driverOutputProc\n";
return 0;
}
int main() {
Tcl_ChannelType *typePtr = new Tcl_ChannelType;
typePtr->blockModeProc = driverBlockModeProc;
typePtr->outputProc = driverOutputProc;
typePtr->closeProc = driverCloseProc;
typePtr->inputProc = driverInputProc;
typePtr->seekProc = NULL;
typePtr->setOptionProc = NULL;
typePtr->getOptionProc = NULL;
typePtr->watchProc = NULL;
typePtr->getHandleProc = NULL;
typePtr->close2Proc = NULL;
typePtr->blockModeProc = NULL;
typePtr->flushProc = NULL;
typePtr->handlerProc = NULL;
typePtr->wideSeekProc = NULL;
typePtr->threadActionProc = NULL;
ClientData data = new char[200];
Tcl_CreateChannel(typePtr, "im_chanel", data, TCL_WRITABLE | TCL_READABLE);
}
I cant debug the segfault because its source are not available. I think the segfault is because a function is called which is NULL. I only need to use the channel to get the output of interpreter. Which functions I needn't implement here and is it right direction to solve the problem.
You're advised to download the source to Tcl when working at this level. I'm not sure what version you're using, but all official distributions of the source going back a very long way are on the SourceForge file distribution system; pick the exact match for the version you've got.
Creating a custom channel driver is not easy. There's a significant amount of complexity involved, and it isn't especially well-documented what “methods” within the channel driver type are mandatory and what are optional. (They're not C++ methods in a class — Tcl is pure C code for reasons too long to go into here — but they function in a conceptually similar way.)
If we look at the documentation for Tcl_CreateChannel, we see (quite a long way down that page) a definition of the channel type structure. The channel type structure should be statically allocated (Tcl's implementation assumes very strongly that it never changes location) and the following fields must be set to something meaningful:
typeName — This is the name of the channel type, useful for debugging!
version — This is the version of the channel type; you should set it to the latest version supported by your target source level. (You're recommended to use at least TCL_CHANNEL_VERSION_2 or things get rather more complex.)
closeProc or close2Proc — Channels must be closeable, but you have two choices for ways to do it. Bidirectional channels ought to use the close2Proc, but aren't strictly required to.
inputProc — Only needed if you're reading; take care to handle this correctly.
outputProc — Only needed if you're writing; take care to handle this correctly.
watchProc — Called to tell the channel driver to install itself into the event system so as to receive suitable events (as instructed by the supplied bitmask). Channels that don't have backing OS handles use timer events, or simply never actually generate events (in which case they'll never become readable or writable from the perspective of fileevent).
Looking at your code, I see that you're missing a watchProc. I know it's hard to see (not many people write channel drivers, to be honest, so the documentation isn't very hard “tested”) but it's really necessary.
I'm using luabind 0.9.1 from Ryan Pavlik's master distribution with Lua 5.1, cygwin on Win XP SP3 + latest patches x86, boost 1.48, gcc 4.3.4. Lua and boost are cygwin pre-compiled versions.
I've successfully built luabind in both static and shared versions.
Both versions pass all the tests EXCEPT for the test_object_identity.cpp test which fails in both versions.
I've tracked down the problem to the following issue:
If an entry in a table is created for NON built-in class (i.e., not int, string, etc), the value CANNOT be retrieved.
Here's a code piece that demonstrates this:
#include "test.hpp"
#include <luabind/luabind.hpp>
#include <luabind/detail/debug.hpp>
using namespace luabind;
struct test_param
{
int obj;
};
void test_main(lua_State* L)
{
using namespace luabind;
module(L)
[
class_<test_param>("test_param")
.def_readwrite("obj", &test_param::obj)
];
test_param temp_object;
object tabc = newtable(L);
tabc[1] = 10;
tabc[temp_object] = 30;
TEST_CHECK( tabc[1] == 10 ); // passes
TEST_CHECK( tabc[temp_object] == 30 ); // FAILS!!!
}
tabc[1] is indeed 10 while tabc[temp_object] is NOT 30! (actually, it seems to be nil)
However, if I use iterate to go over tabc entries, there're the two entries with the CORRECT key/value pairs.
Any ideas?
BTW, overloading the == operator like this:
#include <luabind/operator.hpp>
struct test_param
{
int obj;
bool operator==(test_param const& rhs) const
{
return obj == rhs.obj;
}
};
and
module(L)
[
class_<test_param>("test_param")
.def_readwrite("obj", &test_param::obj)
.def(const_self == const_self)
];
Doesn't change the result.
I also tried switching to settable() and gettable() from the [] operator. The result is the same. I can see with the debugger that default conversion of the key is invoked, so I guess the error arises from somewhere therein, but it's beyond me to figure out what exactly the problem is.
As the following simple test case show, there're definitely a bug in Luabind's conversion for complex types:
struct test_param : wrap_base
{
int obj;
bool operator==(test_param const& rhs) const
{ return obj == rhs.obj ; }
};
void test_main(lua_State* L)
{
using namespace luabind;
module(L)
[
class_<test_param>("test_param")
.def(constructor<>())
.def_readwrite("obj", &test_param::obj)
.def(const_self == const_self)
];
object tabc, zzk, zzv;
test_param tp, tp1;
tp.obj = 123456;
// create new table
tabc = newtable(L);
// set tabc[tp] = 5;
// o k v
settable( tabc, tp, 5);
// get access to entry through iterator() API
iterator zzi(tabc);
// get the key object
zzk = zzi.key();
// read back the value through gettable() API
// o k
zzv = gettable(tabc, zzk);
// check the entry has the same value
// irrespective of access method
TEST_CHECK ( *zzi == 5 &&
object_cast<int>(zzv) == 5 );
// convert key to its REAL type (test_param)
tp1 = object_cast<test_param>(zzk);
// check two keys are the same
TEST_CHECK( tp == tp1 );
// read the value back from table using REAL key type
zzv = gettable(tabc, tp1);
// check the value
TEST_CHECK( object_cast<int>(zzv) == 5 );
// the previous call FAILS with
// Terminated with exception: "unable to make cast"
// this is because gettable() doesn't return
// a TRUE value, but nil instead
}
Hopefully, someone smarter than me can figure this out,
Thx
I've traced the problem to the fact that Luabind creates a NEW DISTINCT object EVERY time you use a complex value as key (but it does NOT if you use a primitive one or an object).
Here's a small test case that demonstrates this:
struct test_param : wrap_base
{
int obj;
bool operator==(test_param const& rhs) const
{ return obj == rhs.obj ; }
};
void test_main(lua_State* L)
{
using namespace luabind;
module(L)
[
class_<test_param>("test_param")
.def(constructor<>())
.def_readwrite("obj", &test_param::obj)
.def(const_self == const_self)
];
object tabc, zzk, zzv;
test_param tp;
tp.obj = 123456;
tabc = newtable(L);
// o k v
settable( tabc, tp, 5);
iterator zzi(tabc), end;
std::cerr << "value = " << *zzi << "\n";
zzk = zzi.key();
// o k v
settable( tabc, tp, 6);
settable( tabc, zzk, 7);
for (zzi = iterator(tabc); zzi != end; ++zzi)
{
std::cerr << "value = " << *zzi << "\n";
}
}
Notice how tabc[tp] first has the value 5 and then is overwritten with 7 when accessed through the key object. However, when accessed AGAIN through tp, a new entry gets created. This is why gettable() fails subsequently.
Thx,
David
Disclaimer: I'm not an expert on luabind. It's entirely possible I've missed something about luabind's capabilities.
First of all, what is luabind doing when converting test_param to a Lua key? The default policy is copy. To quote the luabind documentation:
This will make a copy of the parameter. This is the default behavior when passing parameters by-value. Note that this can only be used when passing from C++ to Lua. This policy requires that the parameter type has an accessible copy constructor.
In pratice, what this means is that luabind will create a new object (called "full userdata") which is owned by the Lua garbage collector and will copy your struct into it. This is a very safe thing to do because it no longer matters what you do with the c++ object; the Lua object will stick around without really any overhead. This is a good way to do bindings for by-value sorts of objects.
Why does luabind create a new object each time you pass it to Lua? Well, what else could it do? It doesn't matter if the address of the passed object is the same, because the original c++ object could have changed or been destroyed since it was first passed to Lua. (Remember, it was copied to Lua by value, not by reference.) So, with only ==, luabind would have to maintain a list of every object of that type which had ever been passed to Lua (possibly weakly) and compare your object against each one to see if it matches. luabind doesn't do this (nor do I think should it).
Now, let's look at the Lua side. Even though luabind creates two different objects, they're still equal, right? Well, the first problem is that, besides certain built-in types, Lua can only hold objects by reference. Each of those "full userdata" that I mentioned before is actually a pointer. That means that they are not identical.
But they are equal, if we define an __eq meta operation. Unfortunately, Lua itself simply does not support this case. Userdata when used as table keys are always compared by identity, no matter what. This actually isn't special for userdata; it is also true for tables. (Note that to properly support this case, Lua would need to override the hashcode operation on the object in addition to __eq. Lua also does not support overriding the hashcode operation.) I can't speak for the authors of Lua why they did not allow this (and it has been suggested before), but there it is.
So, what are the options?
The simplest thing would be to convert test_param to an object once (explicitly), and then use that object to index the table both times. However, I suspect that while this fixes your toy example, it isn't very helpful in practice.
Another option is simply not to use such types as keys. Actually, I think this is a very good suggestion, since this kind of light-weight binding is quite useful, and the only other option is to discard it.
It looks like you can define a custom conversion on your type. In your example, it might be reasonable to convert your type to a Lua number which will behave well as a table index.
Use a different kind of binding. There will be some overhead, but if you want identity, you'll have to live with it. It sounds like luabind has some support for wrappers, which you may need to use to preserve identity:
When a pointer or reference to a registered class with a wrapper is passed to Lua, luabind will query for it's dynamic type. If the dynamic type inherits from wrap_base, object identity is preserved.
I want to call a method in a COM component from C# using COM interop. This is the methods signature:
long GetPrecursorInfoFromScanNum(long nScanNumber,
LPVARIANT pvarPrecursorInfos,
LPLONG pnArraySize)
and this is sample code (which I checked is really working) to call it in C++:
struct PrecursorInfo
{
double dIsolationMass;
double dMonoIsoMass;
long nChargeState;
long nScanNumber;
};
void CTestOCXDlg::OnOpenParentScansOcx()
{
VARIANT vPrecursorInfos;
VariantInit(&vPrecursorInfos);
long nPrecursorInfos = 0;
m_Rawfile.GetPrecursorInfoFromScanNum(m_nScanNumber,
&vPrecursorInfos,
&nPrecursorInfos);
// Access the safearray buffer
BYTE* pData;
SafeArrayAccessData(vPrecursorInfos.parray, (void**)&pData);
for (int i=0; i < nPrecursorInfos; ++i)
{
// Copy the scan information from the safearray buffer
PrecursorInfo info;
memcpy(&info,
pData + i * sizeof(MS_PrecursorInfo),
sizeof(PrecursorInfo));
}
SafeArrayUnaccessData(vPrecursorInfos.parray);
}
And here's the corresponding C# signature after importing the typelib of the COM component:
void GetPrecursorInfoFromScanNum(int nScanNumber, ref object pvarPrecursorInfos, ref int pnArraySize);
If I'm not mistaken, I need to pass in null for pvarPrecursorInfos to make COM interop marshal it as the expected VT_EMPTY variant. When I'm doing it, I get a SafeArrayTypeMismatchException - not really surprising, looking at how the result is expected to be handled in the sample. So I was trying to use a custom marshaler. Since a cannot alter the component itself, I tried to introduce it this way:
[Guid("06F53853-E43C-4F30-9E5F-D1B3668F0C3C")]
[TypeLibType(4160)]
[ComImport]
public interface IInterfaceNew : IInterfaceOrig
{
[DispId(130)]
int GetPrecursorInfoFromScanNum(int nScanNumber, [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.CustomMarshaler, MarshalTypeRef = typeof(MyMarshaler))] ref object pvarPrecursorInfos, ref int pnArraySize);
}
The TypeLibType and DispID attribute are the same as in the original version. This works as far as that the MyMarshaller.GetInstance() method is called, but I do not get a callback in MyMarshaller.NativeToManaged. Instead, an access violation is reported. So is this a reliable approach? If yes - how can I make it work? If no: are there any alternatives?
(Just a footnote: in theory I could try to use managed C++ to call the component natively. However, there are lots of other methods in it that work fine with COM interop, so I would very much like to stick with C# if there is any way.)
Since someone asked for it, here's my solution in Managed C++.
array<PrecursorInfo^>^ MSFileReaderExt::GetPrecursorInfo(int scanNumber)
{
VARIANT vPrecursorInfos;
VariantInit(&vPrecursorInfos);
long nPrecursorInfos = -1;
//call the COM component
long rc = pRawFile->GetPrecursorInfoFromScanNum(scanNumber, &vPrecursorInfos, &nPrecursorInfos);
//read the result
//vPrecursorInfos.parray points to a byte sequence
//that can be seen as array of MS_PrecursorInfo instances
//(MS_PrecursorInfo is a struct defined within the COM component)
MS_PrecursorInfo* pPrecursors;
SafeArrayAccessData(vPrecursorInfos.parray, (void**)&pPrecursors);
//now transform into a .NET object
array<PrecursorInfo^>^ infos = gcnew array<PrecursorInfo^>(nPrecursorInfos);
MS_PrecursorInfo currentPrecursor;
for (int i=0; i < nPrecursorInfos; ++i)
{
currentPrecursor = pPrecursors[i];
infos[i] = safe_cast<PrecursorInfo^>(Marshal::PtrToStructure(IntPtr(¤tPrecursor), PrecursorInfo::typeid));
}
SafeArrayUnaccessData(vPrecursorInfos.parray);
return infos;
}
I look at the github code mzLib, which I believe is related to this topic. The code looks good, where it calls
pin_ptr<const wchar_t> wch = PtrToStringChars(path);
I think it may cause some problem, better use
pin_ptr<const wchar_t> pathChar = static_cast<wchar_t*>(System::Runtime::InteropServices::Marshal::StringToHGlobalUni(path).ToPointer());
The code then seems to be worked just fine when compiles. However, it might run in problem when imported as dll. I worked on that by adding a constructor,such as
public ref class ThermoDLLClass
{
public:
ThermoDLLClass();
PrecursorInfo GetPrecursorInfo(int scanNum, String^ path);
};
Then, it seems to get precursorInfo and parameters appropriately.
I am having a lot of trouble working with the libxml2 library to parse an xml file.
I have weeded out a previous, similar problem, but have run into another.
Here is the problem code:
class SSystem{
public:
//Constructors
SSystem(){};
//Make SSystem from XML Definition. Pass ptr to node
SSystem(xmlNodePtr Nptr, xmlDocPtr Dptr){
name = wxString((char *)xmlGetProp(Nptr, (xmlChar*)"name"), wxConvUTF8);
//Move to next level down, the <general> element
Nptr = Nptr->xmlChildrenNode;
//Move one more level down to the <radius> element
Nptr = Nptr->xmlChildrenNode;
//Get Radius value
if (!xmlStrcmp(Nptr->name, (const xmlChar *)"radius")) {
char* contents = (char*)xmlNodeGetContent(Nptr);
std::string test1 = std::string(contents);
radius = wxString(contents, wxConvUTF8);
}
}
Both an xmlNodePtr and an xmlDocPtr are passed to the constructor, which works fine taking just a property ("name"), but is now choking on further parsing.
Here is a piece of the xml file in question:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Systems>
<ssys name="Acheron">
<general>
<radius>3500.000000</radius> <-- I am trying to get this value (3500).
<stars>300</stars>
<asteroids>0</asteroids>
<interference>0.000000</interference>
<nebula volatility="0.000000">0.000000</nebula>
</general>
It compiles fine, but crashes when the constructor is loaded (I know because, if I comment out the if conditional and the char* contents = (char*)xmlNodeGetContent(Nptr->xmlChildrenNode), it runs fine.
I've tried so many different things (removed one of the Nptr->xmlChildrenNode), but nothing works.
What is wrong?
This:
char* contents = (char*)xmlNodeGetContent(Nptr->xmlChildrenNode)
Should probably be this:
char* contents = (char*)xmlNodeGetContent(Nptr)
Okay, I am going to use a different XML parsing library, as Libxml is a bit too complicated for me.
I am looking into using MiniXML (http://www.minixml.org/).
#Biosci3c:
The method you are calling returns some fake value. You should not call the method
char*)xmlNodeGetContent(Nptr->xmlChildrenNode)
instead you have to get the data corresponding to radius in cdata callback method below here.
void cdataBlock (void * ctx,
const xmlChar * value,
int len)
Check out in libxml library documentation for reference...
I just wrote a C++ wrapper to libxml2. It is on github if someone is interested: https://github.com/filipenf/libxml-cpp-wrapper
The idea is to make the use of libxml2 easier for C++ programmers - that's the main goal of this wrapper.
In the github repository there is a simple example of how to use it, but you can use it like this:
string office_phone = reader.getNodes()[0]["Customer"]["ContactInfo"]["OfficePhone"].text;
It is a work-in-progress so there is many room for improvement....