seems to work in Matlab now with subprocess

msurrogate/+msurrogate/py2mat.m

@@ -24,10 +24,13 @@
     end
     arr = reshape(arr, shape);
     varargout{1} = arr;
-
+   case 'py.str'
+     varargout{1} = char(object);
+   case 'py.unicode'
+     varargout{1} = char(object);
   otherwise
     if strcmp(cname(1:3), 'py.')
-      if strcmp(cname(1:9), 'py.Pyro4.') && strcmp(cname(end-4:end), 'Proxy')
+      if length(cname) >= 14 && strcmp(cname(1:9), 'py.Pyro4.') && strcmp(cname(end-4:end), 'Proxy')
         %it may be a superproxy! so try it out
         if py.hasattr(object, 'pyrosuper_getattr')
           varargout{1} = pyrowrap(object, false);

msurrogate/+msurrogate/tup2mat.m

@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
       switch ME.identifier
       case 'MATLAB:cell2mat:MixedDataTypes'
         varargout{1} = cellfun(@py2mat, ocells, 'UniformOutput', false);
+      case 'MATLAB:cell2mat:UnsupportedCellContent'
+        varargout{1} = cellfun(@py2mat, ocells, 'UniformOutput', false);
       otherwise
         ME.identifier
         error(ME)

msurrogate/subproc_server.py

@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ def __init__(
         if python_call is None:
             python_call = sys.executable
 
+        if module_name is None:
+            raise RuntimeError("Must specify module_name")
+
         self.proc = subprocess.Popen(
             [python_call, '-m', module_name, '-S', '-', '-c', '-'] + args,
             stdout = subprocess.PIPE,

test/test.m

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+% Author : Lee McCuller
+clear classes
+addpath(char(py.msurrogate.matlabpath()));
+
+call = msurrogate.pywrap(@py.msurrogate.subproc_server.ServerSubprocess);
+proc = call('module_name', 'msurrogate.ping_test');
+
+disp(proc.mysecret)
+disp(proc.cookie_dict)
+
+%import numpy_cast.*
+%qb = py.iirrational.testing.iirrational_data('simple2');
+%mqb = py2mat(qb);
+%
+%pyro_config = py2mat(py.Pyro4.config);
+%pyro_config.SERIALIZER = 'dill';
+%pyro_config.REQUIRE_EXPOSE = false;
+%
+%conftext = fileread('iirrational_pyro_con.json');
+%conf = iirrational.json.jsondecode(conftext);
+%
+%factory = py2mat(py.Pyro4.Proxy(conf.v1));
+%
+%obj = factory.rationalize.async({mqb});
+%disp(obj.fitter.xfer_fit)
+%obj.pyrosuper_getattr({'fitter'}).pyrosuper_call({'optimize'})