add the 'naturalvar' option/mode/feature, to allow member variables to be treated in a natural way, as the global ones. This mean use the const SWIGTYPE &(C++)/SWIGTYPE(C) typemaps instead of the plain SWIGTYPE * typemap for the set/get methods.

git-svn-id: https://swig.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/swig/trunk/SWIG@8089 626c5289-ae23-0410-ae9c-e8d60b6d4f22

Examples/test-suite/common.mk

@@ -181,6 +181,7 @@ CPP_TEST_CASES += \
 	namespace_typedef_class \
 	namespace_typemap \
 	namespace_virtual_method \
+	naturalvar \
 	newobject1 \
 	ordering \
 	operator_overload \
@@ -329,6 +330,7 @@ CPP_STD_TEST_CASES += \
         li_std_pair \
 	li_std_string \
 	li_std_vector \
+	naturalvar \
 	template_typedef_fnc \
 	template_type_namespace \
 	template_opaque

Examples/test-suite/naturalvar.i

@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+%module(naturalvar) naturalvar
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+%include std_string.i
+%inline 
+{
+  struct Foo
+  {
+  };
+  
+
+  std::string s;
+  struct Bar
+  {
+    int i;
+    Foo f;
+    std::string s;
+  };
+}
+#else
+%inline 
+{
+  typedef struct _foo
+  {
+  }Foo;
+  
+  
+  char *s;
+  typedef struct _bar
+  {
+    int i;
+    Foo f;
+    char *s;
+  }  Bar;
+}
+#endif
+
+    

Examples/test-suite/python/naturalvar_runme.py

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+from naturalvar import *
+
+f = Foo()
+b = Bar()
+
+b.f = f
+
+cvar.s = "hello"
+b.s = "hello"
+
+if b.s != cvar.s:
+    raise RuntimeError