Does anyone know of any easy way to convert a CLI/.NET System::array to a C++ std::vector, besides doing it element-wise?
I'm writing a wrapper method (SetLowerBoundsWrapper, below) in CLI/C++ that accepts a System::array as an argument, and passes the equivalent std::vector to a native C++ method (set_lower_bounds). Currently I do this as follows:
using namespace System;
void SetLowerBoundsWrapper(array<double>^ lb)
{
int n = lb->Length;
std::vector<double> lower(n); //create a std::vector
for(int i = 0; i<n ; i++)
{
lower[i] = lb[i]; //copy element-wise
}
_opt->set_lower_bounds(lower);
}
Another approach, letting the .NET BCL do the work instead of the C++ standard library:
#include <vector>
void SetLowerBoundsWrapper(array<double>^ lb)
{
using System::IntPtr;
using System::Runtime::InteropServices::Marshal;
std::vector<double> lower(lb->Length);
Marshal::Copy(lb, 0, IntPtr(&lower[0]), lb->Length);
_opt->set_lower_bounds(lower);
}
EDIT (in response to comments on Konrad's answer):
The following both compile for me with VC++ 2010 SP1, and are exactly equivalent:
#include <algorithm>
#include <vector>
void SetLowerBoundsWrapper(array<double>^ lb)
{
std::vector<double> lower(lb->Length);
{
pin_ptr<double> pin(&lb[0]);
double *first(pin), *last(pin + lb->Length);
std::copy(first, last, lower.begin());
}
_opt->set_lower_bounds(lower);
}
void SetLowerBoundsWrapper2(array<double>^ lb)
{
std::vector<double> lower(lb->Length);
{
pin_ptr<double> pin(&lb[0]);
std::copy(
static_cast<double*>(pin),
static_cast<double*>(pin + lb->Length),
lower.begin()
);
}
_opt->set_lower_bounds(lower);
}
(The artificial scope is to allow the pin_ptr
to unpin the memory as early as possible, so as not to hinder the GC.)