How to Specify Special Types in XML Tool Method Declarations

This is what I had to do to be able to return a casa table from a measures tool method.

1. I edited casa/code/xmlcasa/xml/conversions.xml adding the following tag near the beginning of the file with like tags:

 >substitute interface="casatable" as="table" in="measures" />

 

2. I added the following element as a child of the root

<tool>

element in code/xmlcasa/implement/measures/measures.xml

<needs>table</needs>

3. I gave my function a casatable returns type

 <returns type="casatable"/> 

in code/xmlcasa/implement/measures/measures.xml

4. I implemented a corresponding method with a

table*

return type in code/xmlcasa/implement/measures/measures_cmpt.cc

-- DaveMehringer - 2010-08-27