Yes, please file a JIRA.

Since we're on the subject, why wouldn't Vector be a good equivalent of
typed arrays?

Thanks,
-Alex

On 2/26/17, 11:23 AM, "Harbs" <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote:

>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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