Pointer Attribute

The pointer attribute is only used when modeling C structures that will be published by a publisher that supports the ctypes interface. This attribute allows modeling types that are wrapped in a pointer.

See also: pointerDepth

<Block name="HelloWorld" pointer="true">
  <String value="Hello world!" />
</Block>

Would result in the following ctypes code:

class CustomStructure(ctypes.Structure):
    _fields_ = [ ("HelloWorld", c_char_p) ]

block = CustomStructure()
block["HelloWorld"] = c_char_p("Hello world!")

result = POINTER(block)