Adding New Methods

Suppose that you want to add a function to a class, turning it into a member function:

    struct World
    {
        void set(std::string msg) { this->msg = msg; }
        std::string msg;
    };

    std::string greet(World& w)
    {
        return w.msg;
    }

Here, we want to make greet work as a member function of the class World. We do that using the add_method construct:

    W = Class("World", "hello.h")
    add_method(W, "greet")

Notice also that then you can rename it, set its policy, just like a regular member function:

    rename(W.greet, 'Greet')

Now from Python:

    >>> import hello
    >>> w = hello.World()
    >>> w.set('Ni')
    >>> w.greet()
    'Ni'
    >>> print 'Oh no! The knights who say Ni!'
    Oh no! The knights who say Ni!

Copyright © 2003 Bruno da Silva de Oliveira
Copyright © 2002-2003 Joel de Guzman

Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)