pythonSharedPointerGuard.h

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#ifndef PYTHONSHAREDPOINTERGUARD_H
#define PYTHONSHAREDPOINTERGUARD_H

//python
#ifndef Q_MOC_RUN
    // see http://vtk.org/gitweb?p=VTK.git;a=commitdiff;h=7f3f750596a105d48ea84ebfe1b1c4ca03e0bab3
    #if (defined _DEBUG) && (defined WIN32)
        #undef _DEBUG
        #include "Python.h"
        #define _DEBUG
    #else
        #include "Python.h"
    #endif
#endif

#include "../../common/sharedStructures.h"
#include "../global.h"

#include <qhash.h>
#include <qsharedpointer.h>

namespace ito
{

class PythonSharedPointerGuard
{
public:
    static PyObject *tParamToPyObject(ito::ParamBase &param);

    template<typename _Tp> static void deleter(_Tp *sharedPointerData)
    {
        QHash<void*, PyObject*>::iterator i = m_hashTable.find((void*)sharedPointerData);
        if(i != m_hashTable.end())
        {
            Py_XDECREF(i.value());
            m_hashTable.erase(i);
        }
    }

    template<typename _Tp> static QSharedPointer<_Tp> createPythonSharedPointer(_Tp *sharedPointerData, PyObject *pyObjOwner)
    {
        Py_XINCREF(pyObjOwner);
        m_hashTable.insert((void*)sharedPointerData, pyObjOwner);
        return QSharedPointer<_Tp>(sharedPointerData, deleter<_Tp>);
    }

private:
    static QHash<void* /*sharedPointerData*/, PyObject* /*pyObjOwner*/> m_hashTable;  //elements in this hash-table are pyObjects (type byteArray, unicode...), whose inlying char*-pointer is given to a QSharedPointer<char>. Before giving it to the shared pointer, the reference of the pyObject is incremented. If the deleter of the sharedPointer is called, it does not delete the char-array, but decrements the PyObject and deletes it from this hash-table (used in getVal)

};

} //namespace ito

#endif