Exception support

[romainreignier]

Thank you for this nice work!

I was wondering if you ever tried to propagate exceptions from C++ to the other languages?
This may be added to this example.

[Mizux]

Good question !
To be honest, at Google, C++ exceptions are forbidden so I never dig into this topic, however AFAIK SWIG provide some macros (i.e. tooling) to deal with exceptions forwarding could be fun to give it a try once I have time to work on it ^^.

[romainreignier]

Ok, I see.

I have tried it by adding

%include "std_except.i"

And manually adding the catches keyword for method definition:

%catches(std::runtime_error) MyLib::my_method();

It works on Python and map to a RuntimeError.

But I was wondering if there is another method.

[Mizux]

According to the doc

Exceptions are automatically handled for methods with an exception specification. Similar handling can be achieved for methods without exception specifications through the %catches feature.

[romainreignier]

Yes, but Exception specification is deprecated since C++11 and removed in C++17. So `%catches` seems like the only choice. 17 juin 2020 19:58:16 Mizux <[email protected]>:

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[Mizux]

looking at the swig code:
https://github.com/swig/swig/blob/master/Lib/typemaps/std_except.swg
and
https://github.com/swig/swig/blob/master/Lib/typemaps/exception.swg

swig should be able to catch most standard exceptions hope to play with it soon !

e.g. adding in C++ Foo class a method:

void letsThrow(int idx) {
  switch (idx) {
    case 1:
      throw std::runtime_error("runtime error");
   case 2: 
   ...
  } 
}

and in foo.i

%include exception.i

 %exception {
    try {
      $action
    }
    SWIG_CATCH_STDEXCEPT // catch std::exception
    catch (...) {
     SWIG_exception_fail(SWIG_UnknownError, "Unknown exception");
    }
  }

%feature("except")

foo::letsThrow(int);

and see what's happen 😄 when called from Python/Java/.Net

[romainreignier]

Oh, this snippet seems great! It avoids to declare a %catches statement for each method.
To make it work, I had to remove the line:

%feature("except")