Setting an IfcInteger/IfcTimeStamp typed attribute (e.g. IfcOwnerHistory.CreationDate)
outside the signed 32-bit range corrupted the value instead of raising, since the
Python wrapper's set_attribute_value_py() truncated it with a plain static_cast<int>
before handing it to the C++ storage. Unix timestamps before 1901-12-13 or after
2038-01-19 silently wrapped around (e.g. 3000000000 became -1294967296) rather than
being rejected or stored correctly. Fixes#3058, equivalent to PR #8683 but ported to
this branch's rewritten ifcparse (snake_case files, variant_array/instance_data
storage, SWIG PyObject-based attribute setter) instead of the old IfcEntityInstanceData
sources, which no longer exist here.
The scalar slot of the attribute variant (Argument_INT) becomes int64_t. Integer
aggregates (Argument_AGGREGATE_OF_INT, e.g. CoordIndex) and instance/reference
identifiers stay 32-bit, since neither is the value that overflows here; this narrow
scope is kept on its own technical merits (aggregates and identifiers were never the
source of the bug, and widening them would be a much larger, riskier change for no
benefit) even though aothms said compatibility isn't a concern on this v0.9-track
branch. express::Base::set_attribute_value promotes the schema-generated int to
int64_t at a single choke point, so the generated setters keep compiling unchanged.
The STEP lexer, writer, and SWIG wrapper (set_attribute_value_py, pythonize) are all
widened together, since widening only the Python-facing setter would have silently
wrapped the value on file write instead of raising.
Verified in a build (IFC2X3 and IFC4, BUILD_IFCGEOM off, no kernels): pre-1901,
post-2038, both 32-bit boundaries, and a 9e12 value all round trip exactly both in
memory and through STEP text serialization (write then reopen). A value outside the
64-bit range now raises a clean exception instead of corrupting data. Ordinary
in-range integers and integer aggregates (e.g. IfcTriangulatedFaceSet.CoordIndex) are
unaffected. The existing util/test_attribute.py and test_file.py suites pass
unchanged; test_entity_instance.py has 5 pre-existing failures unrelated to this
change (confirmed identical on an unfixed build of this branch, caused by a missing
get_info_2 binding and _patch_swig_comparisons never being implemented here).
Generated with the assistance of an AI coding tool.
check_aggregate_of_type used an exact type comparison (element->ob_type ==
type_obj), so a numpy array was rejected because its elements are numpy scalars
(numpy.float64) rather than direct float instances. For the numeric types,
accept subclasses: PyFloat_Check for double (numpy.float64 subclasses float) and
PyLong_Check (excluding bool) for int. The SPF REAL vs INTEGER distinction is
kept, so a float is not accepted where an int is expected and vice versa.
This replaces the earlier Python-side walk() approach, which the maintainer
preferred not to take since walk() is removed in v0.9. Verified with a runtime
red-green (built as a shared lib, called via ctypes): the old check rejects
np.array([3.0, 4.0]) and the new one accepts it, plain lists still work, an int
list is still rejected where a REAL is expected, and bool is rejected for INTEGER.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Petru Conduraru