Api Equivalent Of Nodetype Command

[chadrik]

how do you get a node's type using the api? essentially, i'm looking for the api equivalent of the mel nodeType command. for custom nodes, MObject.apiType() and MObject.apiTypeStr() are not returning what i would expect. for example, i loaded the scripted plugin rockingTransform. when the plugin registers the new transform node it specifies a node type and a type id

CODE
kRockingTransformPluginName = "spRockingTransform"
kRockingTransformNodeName = "spRockingTransformNode"
kRockingTransformNodeID = OpenMaya.MTypeId(0x87014)
kRockingTransformMatrixID = OpenMaya.MTypeId(0x87015)

.....

def initializePlugin(mobject):
    mplugin = OpenMayaMPx.MFnPlugin(mobject)

    try:
        mplugin.registerTransform( kRockingTransformPluginName, kRockingTransformNodeID, \
                                nodeCreator, nodeInitializer, matrixCreator, kRockingTransformMatrixID )
    except:
        sys.stderr.write( "Failed to register transform: %s\n" % kRockingTransformPluginName )
        raise

but once the plugin is loaded and i create a spRockingTransform object, it is not returning the types registered through the MFnPlugin:

CODE
import maya.cmds as cmds
import maya.OpenMaya as OpenMaya

def toMObject (nodeName):
    """ Get the API MObject given the name of an existing node """
    sel = OpenMaya.MSelectionList()
    obj = OpenMaya.MObject()
    sel.add( nodeName )
    sel.getDependNode( 0, obj )
    return obj

x = cmds.createNode( 'spRockingTransform' )
obj = toMObject( x )

print obj.apiType(), obj.apiTypeStr()

#Result: 886 kPluginTransformNode

what i'd like to get is 'spRockingTransform' and 0x87014 (which is 552980 ).

thanks in advance.

-chad

[katisss]

After registring as transform the matrix is part of the transform, there is no separate matrix node as far as i remember.

[dauzer]

Try with an MFnTransform... ie:

x = cmds.createNode( 'spRockingTransform' )
obj = toMObject( x )

tr = OpenMaya.MFnTransform(obj)

print tr.typeName()

[joojaa]

there is a api example in the devkit thst shows how to retrieve this info.