External Types

External Types can be provided with a YAML file, that provides all the necessary information for the targeted languages.

Type Definition

JSON-Schema

Name	Type	Description
comment	string	A short description of the type
deprecated	string, boolean	Marks a type as deprecated Default: False
name	string	Name of the type in the IDL
namespace	array	Namespace that the type lives in Default: []
primitive	string	The underlying primitive type Default: primitive
params	array	Default: []

cpp

Name	Type	Description
typename	string	Must be a valid C++ type identifier Examples: - int8_t - ::some::Type
header	string	(Optional)
by_value	boolean	Default: False

cppcli

Name	Type	Description
typename	string
translator	string
header	string	(Optional)
reference	boolean	Default: True

java

Java type information

Name	Type	Description
typename	string	(Optional)
boxed	string	(Optional)Default: ``
reference	boolean	Default: True
generic	boolean	Default: False

jni

Name	Type	Description
translator	string
header	string
typename	string	One of jobject, jstring, jboolean, jbyte, jchar, jshort, jint, jlong, jfloat, jdouble, jbyteArray
type_signature	string	Java VM Type Signatures Example: I
boxed_type_signature	string	Type signature of the boxed Java type. If the type is always boxed, both type_signature and boxed_type_signature should contain the same value. Example: Ljava/lang/Integer;

objc

Name	Type	Description
typename	string	(Optional)
boxed	string
header	string	(Optional)
pointer	boolean	Default: True

objcpp

Name	Type	Description
translator	string
header	string