Check Generic Parameter for GH_Path type, and conversion

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Permalink Reply by David Stasiuk on July 5, 2015 at 9:25am

I have been able to get around it by first casting to a string, and then using GH_Path.SplitPathLikeString to get a string array which can then be used to construct a new GH_Path, but it seems like a poor approach.

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on July 5, 2015 at 9:57am

Yeah it seems I never wrote conversion methods for X -> GH_Path.

If you have an IGH_Goo instance, then you can test:

IGH_Goo goo = ...;

GH_Path path = null;

GH_StructurePath pathGoo = goo as GH_StructurePath;

if (pathGoo != null)

  path = pathGoo.Value;

else

{

  path = new GH_Path();

  if (!path.FromString(goo.ToString())

    throw new ArgumentException("Data is not a path");

}

Not very pretty either, but FromString is definitely to be preferred over the more utilitarian SplitPathLikeString. Unfortunately FromString is not a static method so you have to construct a new GH_Path first.

ps. Just another example of how utterly horrible the GH1 SDK truly is...

Permalink Reply by David Stasiuk on July 5, 2015 at 10:24am

Cool. Thanks! That looks cleaner and more sensible than what I've been doing.

Well, I don't know if its all that bad after all. It's just like a big laboratory.