- **Milestone**: 5.19.01 --> 5.19.03
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** [tickets:#2471] pyosaf: Generate the AIS Python bindings from the C header
files**
**Status:** accepted
**Milestone:** 5.19.03
**Created:** Tue May 30, 2017 10:21 AM UTC by Anders Widell
**Last Updated:** Wed Jan 09, 2019 09:23 PM UTC
**Owner:** Anders Widell
The existing Python bindings have been created by hand. This causes several
problems:
* The python bindings have not (always) been updated when the C header files
have been modified, for example when adding a new OpenSAF extension. It is also
difficult to know if the python bindings are complete or if some function is
missing
* There is a risk for typos and copy-paste bugs when manually translating the C
header files to Python
* Because of the risk for typos, all API functions and structure definitions
must be tested individually
* Due to the manual effort, there is a risk for inconsistencies in how
different C functions are mapped to Python - especially over time if different
people are working with the bindings
To solve the above mentioned probelms, the suggestion is to instead translate
the C header files to Python automatically at build time.
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