MATLAB Language Introduction to MEX API Passing a struct by field names
Example
This example illustrates how to read various-type struct entries from MATLAB, and pass it to C equivalent type variables.
While it is possible and easy to figure out from the example how to load fields by numbers, it is here achieved via comparing the field names to strings. Thus the struct fields can be addressed by their field names and variables in it can be read by C.
structIn.c
#include "mex.h"
#include <string.h> // strcmp
void mexFunction (int nlhs, mxArray *plhs[],
int nrhs, const mxArray *prhs[])
{
// helpers
double* double_ptr;
unsigned int i; // loop variable
// to be read variables
bool optimal;
int randomseed;
unsigned int desiredNodes;
if (!mxIsStruct(prhs[0])) {
mexErrMsgTxt("First argument has to be a parameter struct!");
}
for (i=0; i<mxGetNumberOfFields(prhs[0]); i++) {
if (0==strcmp(mxGetFieldNameByNumber(prhs[0],i),"randomseed")) {
mxArray *p = mxGetFieldByNumber(prhs[0],0,i);
randomseed = *mxGetPr(p);
}
if (0==strcmp(mxGetFieldNameByNumber(prhs[0],i),"optimal")) {
mxArray *p = mxGetFieldByNumber(prhs[0],0,i);
optimal = (bool)*mxGetPr(p);
}
if (0==strcmp(mxGetFieldNameByNumber(prhs[0],i),"numNodes")) {
mxArray *p = mxGetFieldByNumber(prhs[0],0,i);
desiredNodes = *mxGetPr(p);
}
}
}
The loop over i runs over every field in the given struct, while the if(0==strcmp)-parts compare the matlab field's name to the given string. If it is a match, the corresponding value is extracted to a C variable.
