I already worked around it for now, but it’s something that should probably be 
resolved.

Do you want me to create a JIRA for this?

> On Feb 26, 2017, at 8:59 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote:
> 
> Has the jsdoc syntax of "type[]" been used elsewhere?  It is likely that
> externc didn't know to expect it.
> 
> For now, you can patch your .js file to just claim to return an array.
> Lots of our other typedefs hack the .js file before pushing it through
> externc.
> 
> -Alex
> 
> On 2/26/17, 10:42 AM, "Harbs" <harbs.li...@gmail.com 
> <mailto:harbs.li...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>> Yes. I put it though externc.
>> 
>> Here’s the ActionScript output for the method:
>>   /**
>>    * Convert the given text to a list of Glyph objects.
>>    * Note that there is no strict one-to-one mapping between characters
>> and
>>    * glyphs, so the list of returned glyphs can be larger or smaller
>> than the
>>    * length of the given string.
>>    *
>>    * @param s [string]
>>    * @see [opentype]
>>    * @returns {(null|opentype.Glyph)} ]}
>>    */
>>   public function stringToGlyphs(s:String):opentype.Glyph {  return
>> null; }
>> 
>> That definitely looks wrong.
>> 
>> I’m not sure what it’s supposed to do. Unless we introduce Typed Arrays,
>> probably just converting it to a simple Array is the safest way to go. I
>> don’t think Vector will translate very well.
>> 
>>> On Feb 26, 2017, at 6:36 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 2/25/17, 11:42 PM, "Harbs" <harbs.li...@gmail.com
>>> <mailto:harbs.li...@gmail.com <mailto:harbs.li...@gmail.com>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I have the following in an extern:
>>>> 
>>>> /**
>>>> * Convert the given text to a list of Glyph objects.
>>>> * Note that there is no strict one-to-one mapping between characters
>>>> and
>>>> * glyphs, so the list of returned glyphs can be larger or smaller than
>>>> the
>>>> * length of the given string.
>>>> * @param  {string} s
>>>> * @param  {Object=} options
>>>> * @return {opentype.Glyph[]}
>>>> */
>>>> opentype.Font.prototype.stringToGlyphs = function(s, options) {};
>>>> 
>>>> The function returns an array of opentype.Glyph objects.
>>>> 
>>>> When I try compile a call to this function, I get the following error
>>>> (in
>>>> compc):
>>>> "Implicit coercion of a value of type Glyph to an unrelated type
>>>> Array."
>>>> 
>>>> This seems to me like it’s probably a bug.
>>> 
>>> I'm guessing you first put this code throughout externc?  What is the
>>> .as
>>> output?  Has externc handled other typed arrays correctly? Is it
>>> supposed
>>> to convert it to a Vector?
>>> 
>>> -Alex

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