From 26fde24a41319f1e59cddec2caee3636e8dd422d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan Porter <ryan.m.porter@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 9 May 2021 17:20:30 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Make Plug.asChar and Plug.setChar expect ordinal ints

---
 src/MPlug.inl       |  8 ++++----
 tests/test_MPlug.py | 26 ++++++--------------------
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/MPlug.inl b/src/MPlug.inl
index fcd331d..7474a8f 100644
--- a/src/MPlug.inl
+++ b/src/MPlug.inl
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@ plug.def(py::init<>())
         return self.asBool();
     }, R"pbdoc(Retrieves the plug's value, as a boolean.)pbdoc")
 
-    .def("asChar", [](MPlug & self) -> char {
+    .def("asChar", [](MPlug & self) -> int {
         plug::assert_not_null(self);
 
-        return self.asChar();
+        return (self.asChar());
     }, R"pbdoc(Retrieves the plug's value, as a single-byte integer.)pbdoc")
 
     .def("asDouble", [](MPlug & self) -> double {
@@ -447,10 +447,10 @@ Note that the behavior of connectedTo() is identical to destinationsWithConversi
         self.setBool(value);
     }, R"pbdoc(Sets the plug's value as a boolean.)pbdoc")
 
-    .def("setChar", [](MPlug & self, char value) {
+    .def("setChar", [](MPlug & self, int value) {
         plug::assert_not_null(self);
 
-        self.setChar(value);
+        self.setChar(char(value));
     }, R"pbdoc(Sets the plug's value as a single-byte integer.)pbdoc")
 
     .def("setDouble", [](MPlug & self, double value) {
diff --git a/tests/test_MPlug.py b/tests/test_MPlug.py
index f0fd77b..bb1a408 100644
--- a/tests/test_MPlug.py
+++ b/tests/test_MPlug.py
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ def test_asType_methods():
 
     for (method_name, value, add_attr_kwargs, set_attr_kwargs) in [
         ('asBool', True, {'at': 'bool'}, {}),
-        ('asChar', (65, 'A'), {'at': 'char'}, {}),
+        ('asChar', ord('A'), {'at': 'char'}, {}),
         ('asDouble', 1.0, {'at': 'double'}, {}),
         ('asFloat', 1.0, {'at': 'float'}, {}),
         ('asInt', 5, {'at': 'long'}, {}),
@@ -407,26 +407,19 @@ def test_asType_methods():
 
 def check_asType_method(method_name, value, add_attr_kwargs, set_attr_kwargs):
     """Test for MPlug::as* bindings."""
-
-    # 'asChar' expects an int but returns a char in Python
-    if isinstance(value, tuple):
-        in_value, out_value = value 
-    else:
-        in_value = value
-        out_value = value 
  
     node = cmds.createNode('network')
 
     attr = p(node, 'attr')
 
     cmds.addAttr(node, ln='attr', **add_attr_kwargs)
-    cmds.setAttr(attr, in_value, **set_attr_kwargs)
+    cmds.setAttr(attr, value, **set_attr_kwargs)
 
     plug = cmdc.SelectionList().add(attr).getPlug(0)
     
     method = getattr(plug, method_name)
 
-    expected = out_value
+    expected = value
     actual = method()
 
     error_message = (
@@ -463,7 +456,7 @@ def test_setType_methods():
 
     for (method_name, value, add_attr_kwargs) in [
         ('setBool', True, {'at': 'bool'}),
-        ('setChar', ('A', 65), {'at': 'char'}),
+        ('setChar', ord('A'), {'at': 'char'}),
         ('setDouble', 1.0, {'at': 'double'}),
         ('setFloat', 1.0, {'at': 'float'}),
         ('setInt', 5, {'at': 'long'}),
@@ -485,13 +478,6 @@ def test_setType_methods():
 def check_setType_method(method_name, value, add_attr_kwargs):
     """Test for MPlug::set* bindings."""
 
-    # 'asChar' expects an int but returns a char in Python
-    if isinstance(value, tuple):
-        in_value, out_value = value 
-    else:
-        in_value = value
-        out_value = value 
- 
     node = cmds.createNode('network')
 
     attr = p(node, 'attr')
@@ -501,9 +487,9 @@ def check_setType_method(method_name, value, add_attr_kwargs):
     plug = cmdc.SelectionList().add(attr).getPlug(0)
     
     method = getattr(plug, method_name)
-    method(in_value)
+    method(value)
 
-    expected = out_value
+    expected = value
     actual = cmds.getAttr(attr)
 
     error_message = (