IcePy: Accept integers where floats are expected

cebix

(Using Ice 3.3.1 on Linux)

Consider this Slice definition:

module Demo {
    struct Value {
        float v;
    };

    interface Printer {
        void printFloat(float f);
        void printValue(Value v);
    };
};

In a Python client it's not possible to call printFloat() with an integer argument or use an integer value for the data member of the Value structure:

>>> printer.printFloat(42)
ValueError: invalid value for argument 1 in operation `printFloat'
>>> v = Demo.Value(42)
>>> printer.printValue(v)
ValueError: invalid value for ::Demo::Value member `v'

Such a strict type validation is very unusual and inconvenient for Python. IMHO, IcePy should implicitly convert integers to floats in these cases.

mes

cebix wrote: »

Such a strict type validation is very unusual and inconvenient for Python. IMHO, IcePy should implicitly convert integers to floats in these cases.

Agreed, we'll fix this.

Thanks,
Mark