Thread: What do the Swigtype classes do in the WPI, I have looked at the documentation
View Single Post
  #5   Spotlight this post!  
Unread 05-02-2015, 18:11
James Kuszmaul James Kuszmaul is offline
NEFIRST CSA
FRC #0971 (Spartan Robotics)
  
Join Date: Jan 2012
Rookie Year: 2011
Location: Worcester, MA
Posts: 61
James Kuszmaul has much to be proud ofJames Kuszmaul has much to be proud ofJames Kuszmaul has much to be proud ofJames Kuszmaul has much to be proud ofJames Kuszmaul has much to be proud ofJames Kuszmaul has much to be proud ofJames Kuszmaul has much to be proud ofJames Kuszmaul has much to be proud ofJames Kuszmaul has much to be proud ofJames Kuszmaul has much to be proud of
Re: What do the Swigtype classes do in the WPI, I have looked at the documentation
In order to use certain HAL classes (written in C++) in the Java portion of WPILib, we create JNI bindings for those classes/functions. In the case of the new Talon SRX, we used swig to generate the JNI bindings for the CanTalonSRX class and then wrapped that with the CANTalon class. Those odd SWIGTYPE* classes are how swig handles c pointers in the JNI bindings. Teams should not need to use any of the swig-related classes; the CANTalon wrapper should implement all the necessary features.
__________________
FRC971 (Student) 2011-2014
FRC190 (College Mentor-ish) 2014
WPILib Development 2014-present