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| -rw-r--r-- | src/libpyexiv2.cpp | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | todo | 1 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/libpyexiv2.cpp b/src/libpyexiv2.cpp index 4bd515e..5c3ecde 100644 --- a/src/libpyexiv2.cpp +++ b/src/libpyexiv2.cpp @@ -362,7 +362,13 @@ namespace LibPyExiv2 void translateExiv2Error(Exiv2::Error const& e) { // Use the Python 'C' API to set up an exception object - const char* message = e.what().c_str(); + + // Building a C++ string first allows this code to compile with all + // versions of libexiv2 (< 0.13 and >= 0.13), because the way exceptions + // are handled in libexiv2 was changed in 0.13. + const std::string sMessage(e.what()); + const char* message = sMessage.c_str(); + // The type of the Python exception depends on the error code // Warning: this piece of code should be updated in case the error codes // defined by Exiv2 (file 'src/error.cpp') are changed @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ todo list +- Reflect changes from src/error.cpp in libexiv2 to src/libpyexiv2.cpp: new error messages, error codes changed - Add a 'doc' builder to the SConstruct to build the module's documentation - Rewrite the exiv2 command-line tool and the test binaries in Python and (Python) scripts to run the same tests that are run to test exiv2 - Write a complete documentation for the binding and it uses |