I do a lot of stuff with trees and I ran into this when I was starting. Fortunately I moved to a more descriptive namespace for my own work. But it is nice when infrastructure packages like node name themselves after something that doesn't collide with one of the most ubiquitous datastructures ever invented. Water under the bridge now. :) On Mar 27, 2012 2:14 PM, "Ben Noordhuis" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 20:56, rhasson <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm building a native module that wraps a library which declares a "node" > > class. This class is used everywhere in the library so changing it is > very > > tedious. Nodejs uses a "node" namespace. Because of this when I build > my > > module I get name conflict errors everywhere. To test my theory, I > renamed > > the "node" namespace to "nodejs" in node.h and node_object_wrap.h and it > > resolved all the error, complied, but now it won't load from within > nodejs. > > Not sure this is related but at least I know it's a namespace issue at > > first. > > > > How can I get around this issue within my module declaration? I prefer > not > > to touch the nodejs sources as well as not to touch the native library > > sources. > > > > Is that possible? > > Yes. Use proper namespacing. Remove all `using namespace x;` lines > from your code and refer to types by their fully qualified name, e.g. > `node::Buffer` and `foo::node` (or `::node` if it lives in the global > namespace - though that's considered very bad style). > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
