Re: Question about subsref in a new data type

[jiaguo]

Thanks for your suggestions.

I found strange behavior when I test my subsasgn in octave.
Basically, if I run 'obj.field=1' in command line or put it
into a script file, it can correctly call my subsasgn.
However, if I put it into a function file, octave will treat
obj as a struct.


The way I did is in that function, I first initialize the
object, register the data type and operator and then call
'obj.field=1;', but then, obj becomes a struct. Please see
test.m for my experiments. I attached my ov-apple class for
reference. you can compile them using the Makefile.



In my implementation, I set is_map() true. However, when I
test the function file test.m, I traced the function calls in
'h.signature=100', and finally I found that in
oct-lvalue::assign(), it calls octave_value::assign(), and in
octave_value::assign(), it has such statements:

if (! error_state)
    {
      if (type[0] == '.' && ! is_map ())
        {
          octave_value tmp = Octave_map ();
          retval = tmp.subsasgn (type, idx, t_rhs);
        }
      else
        retval = subsasgn (type, idx, t_rhs);
    }

and when I test is_map() in gdb, it is false. 

Can somebody tell me what will be different when we call from
a script or from a function? If there is a bug in octave,
where could it possibly be?

Thanks,
Jia 










---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 00:39:59 -0400
>From: Paul Kienzle <address@hidden>  
>Subject: Re: Question about subsref in a new data type  
>To: <address@hidden>
>
>On Jun 23, 2004, at 9:59 AM, <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am now adding a new data type into octave. I defined a
>> subsasgn function in the new data type so that in the equation
>>  'obj.field=1', the value 1 will be assigned to memeber
>> 'field' in my class. In order to make it work, I also write
>> method:
>> bool is_map(void) const {return true;}
>>
>> By doing it, it works when I directly type 'obj.field=1' in
>> the  command line. However, if I put it into a .m file and
>> call it from the .m file, octave cannot recognize my data type
>> and treat obj as a struct.
>>
>> BTW, I couldn't find the example of subsref in the forge
>> directory.
>
>there's a few, such as getfield/setfield in struct.  I don't
>know if they are still working though.  There's also examples
>in extra/mex, but that's kind of ugly code (not least since
>structures have changed a couple of times since 2.1.36).
>
>> Does anybody have this problem before or any suggestions how
>> to do subsref?
>
>I've muddled through, largely by examining code in the octave
>source tree.  I would recommend looking there (e.g., in
src/ov-struct)
>rather than octave-forge since octave-forge is full of cruft
to support
>older octave versions.
>
>A write-up on the wiki would be nice when you finally figure
it out.
>
>- Paul
>

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