ITK/Release 4/Wrapping/Tasks

Current Tasks

TO UPDATE: Build WrapITK with ccache

• measure the build speedup
• write documentation on the wiki

TO UPDATE: Build WrapITK with WRAP_ITK_EXPLICIT

• compare the build time and the bin directory size
• Write the result on a wiki page.

MetadataDictionary access from target languages

• modify itkMetaDataDictionary.h to add those methods:

 + MetaDataObjectBase::Pointer & Get(const std::string &) const;
 + void Set(const std::string &, MetaDataObjectBase * );
 + std::vector< std::string > Keys() const;

• add a specific language customization for python, to make the metadata accessible in a more usual way.

 + a __setitem__() method to add/modify a metadata in the dictionary
 + a __len__() method to return the number of metadata in the dictionary
 + a __getitem__() method - this one should take care to down cast the object to its real type
 + a __str__() method to print the content of the dictionary
 + a __iter__() method to return every elements in the dictionary one by one

Tcl SmartPointers

look at how SmartPointers are replaced by swig proxy objects in python and java and explore the possibility to do the same in Tcl to decrease the build time of WrapITK.

Pending Tasks

• [GL-01] - [100%] - migrating to WrapITK 0.3

Depends on GL-01

• [GL-02] - [--%] - Add support for C#,
• [GL-03] - [--%] - Port the SWIG interface gen. to C++,
• [GL-04] - [--%] - Add support for Python 3,
• [GL-06] - [--%] - Default wrapped types [...],
• [GL-08] - [33%] - Wrapping coverage,

depends on other groups

• [GL-05] - [--%] - Redefine the WrapITK libraries, (follow modular, no need monolithic anymore)
• [GL-07] – [--%] - Extend support to more types,

depends on GL-02 and GL-04

• [GL-09] - [--%] - Binary distribution,
• [GL-10] – [--%] - language specific array conversion, (NOTE: simple itk did it for C# and java, we have it in python)
• [GL-12] - [--%] - Automatic Inline documentation,
• [GL-13] - [--%] - Target language inheritance,
• [GL-14] - [--%] - Automatic type selection in Python,

depends on GDCM

• [GL-11] - [--%] - GDCM wrapping compatibility,
• [GL-MM] - [--%] - ITK-GDCM Wrapping,

last items

• [GL-17] – [--%] - Documentation (user guide)
• [GL-18] – [--%] - Documentation (dev. Guide)