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<div>Hello Rock-Devs,</div>
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<div>long time not seen :).</div>
<div>I currently play around with typekit and orogen in one of our projects.</div>
<div>I did the basic build system integration and if we continue using it, i might need to extend orogen (castxml handling) with cmake support soon, but this is a differnt story.</div>
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<div>So, I currently struggle to create bindings/serialization helper for some special types we use:</div>
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<div>1) Typelib[WARN]: /home/a/workspace/athena/build/vfc/include/vfc/memory/vfc_fixedblock_allocator.hpp:198: cannot create the /vfc/TFixedBlockAllocator<SOMETHING>/storage_type typedef, as it points to which is ignored</div>
<div>2) Typelib[WARN]: /home/a/workspace/athena/build/vfc/include/vfc/memory/vfc_fixedblock_allocator.hpp:89: ignoring /vfc/TFixedBlockAllocator<SOMETHING,200> since its field m_memblock is of the ignored type /vfc/TFixedBlockAllocator<SOMETHING,200>/storage_type</div>
<div>3) Typelib[WARN]: /home/a/workspace/athena/build/vfc/include/vfc/container/vfc_fixedvector.hpp:453: ignoring /vfc/TFixedVector<SOMETHING,200,SOMETHING,200>>/storage_type as it has a non-public access specifier: private</div>
<div>4) Typelib[WARN]: /home/a/workspace/athena/build/vfc/include/vfc/container/vfc_fixedvector.hpp:93: ignoring /vfc/TFixedVector<SOMETHING,200,/vfc/TFixedBlockAllocator<SOMETHING,200>> since its field m_memory is of the ignored type /vfc/TFixedVector<SOMETHING,200,/vfc/TFixedBlockAllocator<SOMETHING,200>>/storage_type</div>
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<div>And i see several issues in:</div>
<div>1) there is a "points to <MISSING?> which is ignored" so obvisously here is something wrong in the error message (and i havwe to trace down the /storage_type which i have no clue where its comming from</div>
<div>2,3) private fields, normal error, see below....</div>
<div>4) simliar to one </div>
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<div>To solve the issues I thought provide a own serialization/deserialization method to prevent the usage inside RTT.</div>
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<div>I wanted to go for a "specialize" of the types. However adding the the following specialize to my .orogen project:</div>
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<pre>Typelib.specialize '/vfc/TFixedBlockAllocator<>' do</pre>
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<pre> include Typelib::ContainerType::StdVector #something should hopefully not YET madder, to be written later</pre>
<pre> end</pre>
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<pre> Typelib.specialize '/vfc/TFixedVector<>' do</pre>
<pre> include Typelib::ContainerType::StdVector #something should hopefully not YET madder, to be written later</pre>
<pre> end</pre>
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<div>does not have any effect. Same as if i would add it to typelib directly:</div>
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<pre>diff --git a/bindings/ruby/lib/typelib/standard_convertions.rb b/bindings/ruby/lib/typelib/standard_convertions.rb</pre>
<pre>index fb3e3fb..f917070 100644</pre>
<pre>--- a/bindings/ruby/lib/typelib/standard_convertions.rb</pre>
<pre>+++ b/bindings/ruby/lib/typelib/standard_convertions.rb</pre>
<pre>@@ -59,6 +59,10 @@ def concat(other_string)</pre>
<pre> include Typelib::ContainerType::StdVector</pre>
<pre> end</pre>
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<pre>+ specialize '/vfc/TFixedVector<>' do</pre>
<pre>+ include Typelib::ContainerType::FixedVector #something should hopefully not YET madder, to be written later</pre>
<pre>+ end</pre>
<pre>+</pre>
<pre> ####</pre>
<pre> # C string handling</pre>
<pre> if String.instance_methods.include? :ord</pre>
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<div>So my questions are:</div>
<div>* Since i am out of rock, am i going the right way, why the specialize is not taken into account?</div>
<div>** Cant it bypass the private fields, do i have to change my underlaying core datatypes (if so are there other ways which are copy free?, I would like to prevent going down this path)</div>
<div>* Can I prevent a copy this way, or will the data strucutres be copied if i go for a "specialize"?I</div>
<div>Thanks for your help</div>
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<div>Best and stay safe,</div>
<div>Matthias</div>
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