[libcamera-devel] [RFC v2 0/4] prototype python bindings

[Tomi Valkeinen]

Hi,

It's been a while since the v1 RFC, and even if I haven't had much time
to work on this, I thought it's time to send a new version, at least to
avoid anyone testing the old one.

Too many changes to v1 to mention them all (not that I even
remember...), but a few here:

- Use meson subprojects for pybind11. The public subproject repository
  didn't have a recent pybind11, so I have pybind11 2.6.0 packaged here
  in a separate patch.

- Use eventfd to convey events from C++ to Python. This gets rid of
  multiple issues, e.g. the locking problems and the callback
  subscriptions.

- simplecamera.py: a "simple" camera class which hopefully makes
  libcamera more natural to use from python (compared to the very c++
  like API that the basic bindings provide).

- Some new tests:
  * test.py: simple test that just captures frames and exists
  * drmtest.py: uses kms++ python bindings to show the captured images
    on screen.
  * icam.py: Meant to run in an interactive python session. Uses Qt to
  * show (possibly from multiple cameras) captured images. One can
    adjust the cameras & controls via the python shell.

Some clear issues are still present:
- Memory management, especially related to Requests and FBs is still not
  clear.
- Not all control types are supported.
- There are open parts in the SimpleCamera config sequences. It must be
  simple, but you also have to be able to do everything, and at the
  moment it's a bit of a mess.

This is not a request to review as such, as I know there are plenty of
things to fix. I think the best feedback would be on the area of
thoughts about the API in general, or ideas on how to solve the issues.

 Tomi

Tomi Valkeinen (4):
  hack: Camera public destructor
  HACK: expose Camera* from Request
  libcamera python bindings
  py: update pybind11 wrap to 2.6.0

 .gitignore                                    |   2 +
 include/libcamera/camera.h                    |   2 +-
 include/libcamera/request.h                   |   1 +
 meson_options.txt                             |   2 +
 src/libcamera/request.cpp                     |   5 +
 src/meson.build                               |   1 +
 src/py/meson.build                            |   1 +
 src/py/pycamera/__init__.py                   |  11 +
 src/py/pycamera/meson.build                   |  38 ++
 src/py/pycamera/pymain.cpp                    | 382 ++++++++++++++++++
 src/py/test/drmtest.py                        | 129 ++++++
 src/py/test/icam.py                           | 154 +++++++
 src/py/test/run-valgrind.sh                   |   6 +
 src/py/test/run.sh                            |   3 +
 src/py/test/simplecamera.py                   | 198 +++++++++
 src/py/test/test.py                           | 210 ++++++++++
 src/py/test/valgrind-pycamera.supp            |  17 +
 .../packagecache/pybind11-2.6.0-wrap.zip      | Bin 0 -> 1456 bytes
 subprojects/packagecache/pybind11-2.6.0.zip   | Bin 0 -> 727287 bytes
 subprojects/pybind11.wrap                     |  10 +
 20 files changed, 1171 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 src/py/meson.build
 create mode 100644 src/py/pycamera/__init__.py
 create mode 100644 src/py/pycamera/meson.build
 create mode 100644 src/py/pycamera/pymain.cpp
 create mode 100755 src/py/test/drmtest.py
 create mode 100755 src/py/test/icam.py
 create mode 100755 src/py/test/run-valgrind.sh
 create mode 100755 src/py/test/run.sh
 create mode 100644 src/py/test/simplecamera.py
 create mode 100755 src/py/test/test.py
 create mode 100644 src/py/test/valgrind-pycamera.supp
 create mode 100644 subprojects/packagecache/pybind11-2.6.0-wrap.zip
 create mode 100644 subprojects/packagecache/pybind11-2.6.0.zip
 create mode 100644 subprojects/pybind11.wrap

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