/* example/example15.cpp -- pickle support Copyright (c) 2015 Wenzel Jakob All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file. */ #include "example.h" class Pickleable { public: Pickleable(const std::string &value) : m_value(value) { } const std::string &value() const { return m_value; } void setExtra1(int extra1) { m_extra1 = extra1; } void setExtra2(int extra2) { m_extra2 = extra2; } int extra1() const { return m_extra1; } int extra2() const { return m_extra2; } private: std::string m_value; int m_extra1 = 0; int m_extra2 = 0; }; void init_ex15(py::module &m) { py::class_(m, "Pickleable") .def(py::init()) .def("value", &Pickleable::value) .def("extra1", &Pickleable::extra1) .def("extra2", &Pickleable::extra2) .def("setExtra1", &Pickleable::setExtra1) .def("setExtra2", &Pickleable::setExtra2) // For details on the methods below, refer to // http://docs.python.org/3/library/pickle.html#pickling-class-instances .def("__getstate__", [](const Pickleable &p) { /* Return a tuple that fully encodes the state of the object */ return py::make_tuple(p.value(), p.extra1(), p.extra2()); }) .def("__setstate__", [](Pickleable &p, py::tuple t) { if (t.size() != 3) throw std::runtime_error("Invalid state!"); /* Invoke the constructor (need to use in-place version) */ new (&p) Pickleable(t[0].cast()); /* Assign any additional state */ p.setExtra1(t[1].cast()); p.setExtra2(t[2].cast()); }); }