Hi all,
I have a problem with FFI which is certainly due to my lack of experience with
c, and would very much appreciate any help.
I am using (_list i _string) to pass an array of strings to a c function, but
all that ends up on the other side seems to be "nonsense" / random characters.
The c function is described as
boolean OCI_BindArrayOfStrings(OCI_Statement * stmt, const mtext * name, dtext
* data, unsigned int len, unsigned int nbelem)
where mtext and dtext are aliases for char, the way the library was compiled,
the second-but-last argument has to indicate the length of the longest string
in the array, and the last argument has to be 0 apart from a special case not
applicable here.
I've defined it as
(def-ocilib bindstringarray OCI_BindArrayOfStrings : (stmt_ptr : _pointer)
(name : _string) (data : (_list i _string)) (maxstrlen : _uint = (getmaxlength
data)) (no : _uint) -> (result : _bool))
where maxstrlen gives the length of the longest list member.
The function does not give any error, only the transmitted strings are
random/whatever.
I have a "parallel" function using (_list i _int) to pass an array of ints, and
this one works fine. Second, I have no problem passing a single input string,
as in
(def-ocilib bindstring OCI_BindString : (stmt_ptr : _pointer) (name : _string)
(data : _string) (len : _int = (string-length data)) -> (result : _bool))
so I think I am using the _list construct itself correctly, and the datatype
_string itself works fine, too - but there might be special things to pay
attention to when passing arrays of strings, perhaps somehow related to field
delimitation...?
By the way, I also have another problem understanding the (varname : (_list
mode type)) form. If the varname still refers to the racket side, I should be
able to pass it to a racket function, as I do with the
(data : (_list i _string))
in the "misbehaving" function cited above, doing (getmaxlength data), and it
works fine. But I also tried using
(data : (_list io _string (length data))
instead, in order to check the correctness of the input strings, putting them
out as part of the functions return values, but for doing (length data) I get
the error
length: expects argument of type <proper list>; given #<cpointer>
so here data seems to be a c type, not a racket list anymore...
Many thanks in advance for any help regarding the above problem, and
understanding the latter point :-)
Ciao,
Sigrid
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