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sunnyagarwal008
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May 5, 2010, 2:27 AM

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Creating wrapper over a wrapper

I have a perl module which is basically just a wrapper over C code and it works fine. Now I am trying to write another wrapper over this perl wrapper. In this, I am exporting all the functions that the original wrapper exports. I am defining all these methods like:

Code

sub  ABC 
{ 
    return wrapper::ABC(@_); 
}

When i compile this, i get errors saying that there is a prototype mismatch between the ABC here and wrapper::ABC. Can someone please help me out on this?

(This post was edited by sunnyagarwal008 on May 5, 2010, 2:28 AM)

shawnhcorey
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May 5, 2010, 5:07 AM

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Re: [sunnyagarwal008] Creating wrapper over a wrapper

Please show the code for wrapper::ABC.

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sunnyagarwal008
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May 5, 2010, 6:42 AM

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Re: [shawnhcorey] Creating wrapper over a wrapper

Hi,

As I said, its just a wrapper over C functions, there's not much of code in it (works with Dynaloader and AutoLoader). It works fine if I use this module alone. Here is the code:
<code>
package ABC;

$ABC::VERSION = '0.02';

use strict;
use vars qw($VERSION @ISA @EXPORT @EXPORT_OK);

require Exporter;
require DynaLoader;
require AutoLoader;

@ISA = qw(Exporter AutoLoader DynaLoader);

# Items to export into callers namespace by default.
@EXPORT = qw(
new_time_var
dl_ascii_to_date
dl_ascii_to_time
dl_close_cache
);
@EXPORT_OK = qw();

bootstrap ABC $VERSION;
</code>

and here is the wrapper module:
<code>
package PQR;
use strict;
use vars qw($VERSION @ISA @EXPORT @EXPORT_OK);

require Exporter;
require AutoLoader;
use ABC;

$PQR::VERSION = $ABC::VERSION;

@ISA = qw(Exporter AutoLoader);
@EXPORT = qw(
new_time_var
dl_ascii_to_date
dl_ascii_to_time
dl_close_cache
);

@EXPORT_OK = qw();

sub new_time_var
{
return ABC::new_time_var(@_);
}

sub dl_ascii_to_date
{
return ABC::dl_ascii_to_date(@_);
}

sub dl_ascii_to_time
{
return ABC::dl_ascii_to_time(@_);
}

sub dl_close_cache
{
return ABC::dl_close_cache(@_);
}
</code>

The actual subroutine signatures are:
<code>
<new_time_var>()
<dl_ascii_to_date>(<string>)
<dl_ascii_to_time>(<string>, <dtp>)
<dl_close_cache>(<dcp>)
</code>

When I test this using a script I get the following errors:
<code>
>/u/agarwsun/test> perl -wc test.pl
</code>
Prototype mismatch: sub PQR::new_time_var () vs none at /u/agarwsun/projects/packages/datelib/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i86pc-solaris/PQR.pm line 71.
 
Subroutine new_time_var redefined at /u/agarwsun/projects/packages/datelib/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i86pc-solaris/PQR.pm line 67.
 
Prototype mismatch: sub PQR::dl_ascii_to_date ($) vs none at /u/agarwsun/projects/packages/datelib/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i86pc-solaris/PQR.pm line 76.
Subroutine dl_ascii_to_date redefined at /u/agarwsun/projects/packages/datelib/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i86pc-solaris/PQR.pm line 74.
 
Prototype mismatch: sub PQR::dl_ascii_to_time ($$) vs none at /u/agarwsun/projects/packages/datelib/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i86pc-solaris/PQR.pm line 81.

 
If I do not re-export the functions in PQR, and extend from ABC, I don't get the errors related to redefining subroutines, but I still get prototype mismatch errors:
 
Prototype mismatch: sub ABC::new_time_var () vs none at /u/agarwsun/projects/packages/datelib/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i86pc-solaris/PQR.pm line 22.
 
Prototype mismatch: sub ABC::dl_ascii_to_date ($) vs none at /u/agarwsun/projects/packages/datelib/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i86pc-solaris/PQR.pm line 27.
 
Prototype mismatch: sub Deshaw::DateLib::dl_ascii_to_time ($$) vs none at /u/agarwsun/projects/packages/datelib/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i86pc-solaris/PQR.pm line 32.