From 6f7f527e1db300fb532390348db132446a211085 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robin Gareus <robin@gareus.org>
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2017 20:07:54 +0100
Subject: Lua add an Empty/Nil shared-pointer constructor

---
 libs/lua/LuaBridge/detail/Namespace.h | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)

(limited to 'libs/lua')

diff --git a/libs/lua/LuaBridge/detail/Namespace.h b/libs/lua/LuaBridge/detail/Namespace.h
index 7f8d44859c..9a9b3c44cb 100644
--- a/libs/lua/LuaBridge/detail/Namespace.h
+++ b/libs/lua/LuaBridge/detail/Namespace.h
@@ -482,6 +482,14 @@ private:
       return 1;
     }
 
+    template <class T>
+    static int ctorNilPtrPlacementProxy (lua_State* L)
+    {
+      const T* newobject = new T ();
+      Stack<T>::push (L, *newobject);
+      return 1;
+    }
+
     //--------------------------------------------------------------------------
     /**
       Pop the Lua stack.
@@ -1279,6 +1287,24 @@ private:
       return addConstructor <void (*) ()> ();
     }
 
+    WSPtrClass <T>& addNilPtrConstructor ()
+    {
+      FUNDOC ("Weak/Shared Pointer Constructor", "", MemFn)
+      set_shared_class ();
+      lua_pushcclosure (L,
+          &shared. template ctorNilPtrPlacementProxy <boost::shared_ptr<T> >, 0);
+      rawsetfield(L, -2, "__call");
+
+      set_weak_class ();
+      // NOTE: this constructs an empty weak-ptr,
+      // ideally we'd construct a weak-ptr from a referenced shared-ptr
+      lua_pushcclosure (L,
+          &weak. template ctorNilPtrPlacementProxy <boost::weak_ptr<T> >, 0);
+      rawsetfield(L, -2, "__call");
+
+      return *this;
+    }
+
     WSPtrClass <T>& addExtCFunction (char const* name, int (*const fp)(lua_State*))
     {
       DATADOC ("Weak/Shared Ext C Function", name, fp)
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