[Ns-developers] [ns-3] binding Packet/Tag/TraceContext

[Mathieu Lacage]

On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 13:51 +0000, Gustavo Carneiro wrote:

> 
> OK, so for TraceContextElements I think we have a possible solution
> based on C++ overloading.
> For tags a similar solution can be used.
> For headers probably as well.
> 
> Hm.. maybe NS-3 does not need API changes after all :-) 

If the only thing you are concerned about is adding and removing c++
trace context elements, tags, and headers from python, then, yes, it
should work. However, if you want to make it possible to add python
tags/headers/TraceContextElements, then, I am afraid, we are going to
need to add Serialization/Deserialization methods, even for the C++
code.
> 
> One thing that I'm sure I'll need is to have all possible tags inherit
> from a single common Tag base class.  Same for Header and
> TraceContextElement.  This is so that I can use gccxml introspection
> to discover all the possible classes for tags, tracing, and headers. 

This is already the case in the current codebase.

Mathieu