I am developing a dll that should be used in Python. I have a callback function to send my parameters (defined in a separate header):
typedef int(*call_nBest)(char **OutList, float* confList, int nB);
So, I'm using this callback in this way:
#define TEXT_BUFFER_MAX_SIZE 50
call_nBest nBestList;
void Xfunction(const char* aLineThatWillBeConvertedInAList){
char **results;
float *confidences;
confidences=new float[nBest];
results=new char*[nBest];
for(int i=0; i<nBest; i++) results[i]=new char[TEXT_BUFFER_MAX_SIZE];
MakeLine2List(aLineThatWillBeConvertedInAList,results,confidences);
/*At this function I am having the error :(*/
nBestList(results,confidences,nBest); // Passing the values to my callback
for(int i=0; i<nBest; i++) delete [] results[i];
delete [] confidences;
delete [] results;
}
And I'm exporting it in this way:
__declspec(dllexport) int ResultCallback(call_nBest theList){
nBestList = theList;
return(0);
}
I tested my callback first in another C++ application in this way:
int MyCallback(char **OutLi, float* confLi, int nB){
printf("\n The nB results: %d \n",nB);
for(int n=0; n<nB; n++){
std::cout << *(confLi+n) << "\t" << OutLi[n] << "\n";
}
return(0);
}
In main()
I give the callback in this way:
ResultCallback(MyCallback);
and it works pretty well. But I don't have any idea how to adapt this to Python. I have tried this:
Note: I have changed the last way, because I resolved some mistakes, but I'm still getting an error. This is the current way of how I am loading myDLL
from ctypes import *
def callbackU(OutList,ConList,nB):
for i in range(nB):
print(OutList[i][0:50]) #I don't know how to print the values
return 0
myDLL = cdll.LoadLibrary("MyLibrary.dll")
calling = CFUNCTYPE(c_int,POINTER(POINTER(c_char)),POINTER(c_float),c_int)
theCall= calling(callbackU)
myDLL.ResultCallback(theCall)
myDLL.StartProcess(); #In this process the given callback will be invoqued
ERROR
And now I have this error:
Unhandled Exception: System.AccessViolationException: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt. at Xfunction(SByte* aLineThatWillBeConvertedInAList)
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: python.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 54f9ed12
Fault Module Name: MSVCR100.dll
Fault Module Version: 10.0.40219.325
Fault Module Timestamp: 10.0.40219.325
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00001ed7
OS Version: 6.3.9600.2.0.0.256.4
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 5861
Additional Information 2: 5861822e1919d7c014bbb064c64908b2
Additional Information 3: a10f
Additional Information 4: a10ff7d2bb2516fdc753f9c34fc3b069
Things that I've done and are almost what I want:
First I changed the callback Python function for this one:
def callbackU(OutList,ConList,nB):
for i in range(nB):
print(i)
return 0
All works with no error and I can see this in the Console (in this case nB
was 10
):
0
1
...
9
Second, I changed the function as this one:
def callbackU(OutList,ConList,nB):
for i in range(nB):
print (cast(OutList,c_char_p))
return 0
and, oh surprise this prints only the first word of the list (nB times)