Re: tostring

Thank you, Iliya.

   Ken

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Iliya Trendafilov <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, to bind operators you have to #include <luabind/operator.hpp>
>
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Ken Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I'm having a problem mapping an operator<< to tostring for my class.
>> My environment is GCC 4.0 on Mac OS X 10.4+.  Here is the code.
>>
>>  1 #include <iostream>
>>  2
>>  3 #include "lua.hpp"
>>  4 #include "luabind/luabind.hpp"
>>  5
>>  6 struct test_t
>>  7 {
>>  8     test_t(const std::string& name)
>>  9         :
>>  10             name_(name)
>>  11     {
>>  12     }
>>  13     friend std::ostream& operator<<(
>>  14         std::ostream& os, const test_t& test
>>  15     );
>>  16
>>  17 private:
>>  18     std::string name_;
>>  19 };
>>  20
>>  21 std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& os, const test_t& test)
>>  22 {
>>  23     os
>>  24         << "test_t: "
>>  25         << test.name_;
>>  26
>>  27     return os;
>>  28 }
>>  29
>>  30 int main()
>>  31 {
>>  32     lua_State* L = luaL_newstate();
>>  33     luaL_openlibs(L);
>>  34     using namespace luabind;
>>  35     open(L);
>>  36     module(L)
>>  37     [
>>  38         class_<test_t>("test_t")
>>  39             .def(constructor<const std::string&>())
>>  40             .def(tostring(self))
>>  41     ];
>>  42     if (luaL_dostring(L, "t = test_t('hi') print(t)") == 1)
>>  43     {
>>  44         std::cout
>>  45             << "Couldn't run Lua program: "
>>  46             << lua_tostring(L, -1)
>>  47             << std::endl;
>>  48     }
>>  49
>>  50 }
>>
>> Compiling this yields the following error.
>>
>> src/main.cpp:40: error: 'self' was not declared in this scope
>> src/main.cpp:40: error: 'tostring' was not declared in this scope
>>
>> Commenting out line 40 causes the sample to compile but of course, the
>> call to print(t) fails with:
>>
>> Couldn't run Lua program: No such operator defined
>>
>> How should I change this example to map test_t's operator<< to its
>> __tostring metamethod in Lua?
>>
>>   Regards,
>>   Ken
>>
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