PyAPI: Support for 'None' string args from Python

This is needed because some RNA functions differentiate a NULL 'char *'
argument from an empty string.

Previously a NULL argument could be passed when the C definition
defined the default as NULL and the argument wasn't passed
which is a fairly hidden way of handling things.

Now strings use `PROP_NEVER_NULL` by default
which can be cleared for function arguments that allow None -> NULL.

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/source/blender/python/intern/bpy_rna.c b/source/blender/python/intern/bpy_rna.c
index 32d8c01be76..b4020c9fc8f 100644
--- a/source/blender/python/intern/bpy_rna.c
+++ b/source/blender/python/intern/bpy_rna.c
@@ -1729,7 +1729,25 @@ static int pyrna_py_to_prop(
 				const int subtype = RNA_property_subtype(prop);
 				const char *param;
 
-				if (subtype == PROP_BYTESTRING) {
+				if (value == Py_None) {
+					if ((RNA_property_flag(prop) & PROP_NEVER_NULL) == 0) {
+						if (data) {
+							*((char **)data) = (char *)NULL;
+						}
+						else {
+							RNA_property_string_set(ptr, prop, NULL);
+						}
+					}
+					else {
+						PyC_Err_Format_Prefix(
+						        PyExc_TypeError,
+						        "%.200s %.200s.%.200s doesn't support None from string types",
+						        error_prefix, RNA_struct_identifier(ptr->type),
+						        RNA_property_identifier(prop));
+						return -1;
+					}
+				}
+				else if (subtype == PROP_BYTESTRING) {
 
 					/* Byte String */