Re: Announcing: Perl bindings for LibSoup

[Emmanuel Rodriguez <emmanuel rodriguez gmail com>]

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 23:51, Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de> wrote:
> On 25.05.2011 23:18, Emmanuel Rodriguez wrote:
> > Is there a way to provide custom made XS methods to an introspection
> > perl package? For instance, SoupMessageBody is defined as:
> >
> > typedef struct {
> > Â Â Â Âconst char *data;
> >    Âgoffset   length;
> > } SoupMessageBody;
> >
> > And provides no accessor for data or length. Is there a way to
> > complete the introspection binding with extra XS methods?
> > If so do you know of an existing cpan package that does this?
>
> Adding custom XS methods is no problem: just write them as you normally
> would. ÂBut in the case you mention, that's not necessary.
> gobject-introspection provides the means to get and set public fields of
> boxed types.
How do we access public fields of boxed types?
I tried $body->data and $body->get_data without success.

-- 
Emmanuel Rodriguez