Re: Announcing: Perl bindings for LibSoup

[Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de>]

On 06.06.2011 16:19, Emmanuel Rodriguez wrote:
> > Adding custom XS methods is no problem: just write them as you normally
> > would.  But 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.

It seems like I was misremembering this.  While we do support converting 
bare structs to and from Perl hashes, we don't support acessing fields 
of boxed types yet.  To implement this, we would need to install, for 
each boxed type, subs that call into a new pair of XS functions that use 
g_field_info_get_field and g_field_info_set_field.