New typemap for in-place arrays of arbitrary number of dimensions:

  (DATA_TYPE* INPLACE_ARRAY_FLAT, DIM_TYPE DIM_FLAT)
Added unittests, updated documentation.

2 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/doc/source/reference/swig.interface-file.rst b/doc/source/reference/swig.interface-file.rst
index c381feb85..e5d369d0e 100644
--- a/doc/source/reference/swig.interface-file.rst
+++ b/doc/source/reference/swig.interface-file.rst
@@ -320,6 +320,17 @@ signatures are
 These typemaps now check to make sure that the ``INPLACE_ARRAY``
 arguments use native byte ordering.  If not, an exception is raised.
 
+There is also a "flat" in-place array for situations in which
+you would like to modify or process each element, regardless of the
+number of dimensions. One example is a "quantization" function that
+quantizes each element of an array in-place, be it 1D, 2D or whatever.
+This form checks for continuity but allows either C or Fortran ordering.
+
+ND:
+
+ * ``(DATA_TYPE* INPLACE_ARRAY_FLAT, DIM_TYPE DIM_FLAT)``
+
+
 Argout Arrays
 `````````````
 
diff --git a/doc/source/reference/swig.testing.rst b/doc/source/reference/swig.testing.rst
index c0daaec66..13642a52e 100644
--- a/doc/source/reference/swig.testing.rst
+++ b/doc/source/reference/swig.testing.rst
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ Two-dimensional arrays are tested in exactly the same manner.  The
 above description applies, but with ``Matrix`` substituted for
 ``Vector``.  For three-dimensional tests, substitute ``Tensor`` for
 ``Vector``.  For four-dimensional tests, substitute ``SuperTensor``
+for ``Vector``. For flat in-place array tests, substitute ``Flat``
 for ``Vector``.
 For the descriptions that follow, we will reference the
 ``Vector`` tests, but the same information applies to ``Matrix``,