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#ifndef DYNAMIC_GRAPH_PYTHON_MODULE_HH
#define DYNAMIC_GRAPH_PYTHON_MODULE_HH
 
#ifdef PINOCCHIO_WITH_URDFDOM
// If pinocchio is used, we have to include pinocchio header before boost mpl
#include <pinocchio/fwd.hpp>
#endif
 
#include <dynamic-graph/entity.h>
 
#include <boost/mpl/for_each.hpp>
#include <boost/mpl/vector.hpp>
#include <boost/python.hpp>
#include <dynamic-graph/python/dynamic-graph-py.hh>
 
namespace dynamicgraph {
namespace python {
 
constexpr int AddSignals = 1;
constexpr int AddCommands = 2;
 
namespace internal {
 
template <typename T, int Options = AddCommands | AddSignals>
bp::object makeEntity1(const char* name) {
  Entity* ent = entity::create(T::CLASS_NAME.c_str(), name);
  assert(dynamic_cast<T*>(ent) != NULL);
  bp::object obj(bp::ptr(static_cast<T*>(ent)));
  if (Options & AddCommands) entity::addCommands(obj);
  if (Options & AddSignals) entity::addSignals(obj);
  return obj;
}
template <typename T, int Options = AddCommands | AddSignals>
bp::object makeEntity2() {
  return makeEntity1<T, Options>("");
}
 
}  // namespace internal
 
template <typename T,
          typename bases = boost::python::bases<dynamicgraph::Entity>,
          int Options = AddCommands | AddSignals>
inline auto exposeEntity() {
  // std::string hiddenClassName ("_" + T::CLASS_NAME);
  std::string hiddenClassName(T::CLASS_NAME);
  namespace bp = boost::python;
  bp::class_<T, bases, boost::noncopyable> obj(hiddenClassName.c_str(),
                                               bp::init<std::string>());
  /* TODO at the moment, I couldn't easily find a way to define a Python
  constructor
   * that would create the entity via the factory and then populate the
   * python object with its commands.
   * This is achieved with a factory function of the same name.
  obj.def ("__init__", bp::raw_function(+[](bp::object args, bp::dict) {
          if (bp::len(args) != 2)
            throw std::length_error("Expected 2 arguments.");
          bp::object self = args[0];
          self.attr("__init__")(bp::extract<std::string>(args[1]));
          Entity* ent = entity::create(T::CLASS_NAME.c_str(), name);
          if (dynamic_cast<T*>(ent) == NULL)
            std::cout << "foo" << std::endl;
          assert(dynamic_cast<T*>(ent) != NULL);
          self = bp::object(bp::ptr(static_cast<T*>(ent)));
          //dynamicgraph::Entity& unused =
  bp::extract<dynamicgraph::Entity&>(self);
          //entity::addCommands(self);
        })
  ;
  */
  bp::def(T::CLASS_NAME.c_str(), &internal::makeEntity1<T, Options>);
  bp::def(T::CLASS_NAME.c_str(), &internal::makeEntity2<T, Options>);
  if (!(Options & AddCommands)) obj.def("add_commands", &entity::addCommands);
  if (!(Options & AddSignals)) obj.def("add_signals", &entity::addSignals);
  return obj;
}
 
}  // namespace python
}  // namespace dynamicgraph
 
#endif  // DYNAMIC_GRAPH_PYTHON_MODULE_HH