Re: GType GString is not registered with gperl at Glib/Object/Introspection.pm

[Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de>]

On 06.11.2011 22:18, Emmanuel Rodriguez wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 21:44, Torsten Schoenfeld<kaffeetisch gmx de>  wrote:
> > On 06.11.2011 21:25, Emmanuel Rodriguez wrote:
> > > *** unhandled exception in callback:
> > > ***   GType GString (156083704) is not registered with gperl at
> > > /usr/local/lib/perl/5.12.4/Glib/Object/Introspection.pm line 57.
> > > ***  ignoring at /usr/local/share/perl/5.12.4/Gtk3.pm line 104.
> >
> > This comes from the code in Glib that handles boxed types.  It turns out
> > that we don't have a boxed wrapper for G_TYPE_GSTRING.  (To our defense,
> > this WebKit API is the first instance of GString occurring in an API that
> > I've seen.)  The boxed wrapper would most likely be a very thin shell around
> > newSVpv and SvPV.  The G_TYPE_STRV wrapper might serve as an example.
>
> (this time with a *reply to all*, sorry Torsten for the spam)
>
> I can add the box type to Gtk3::WebKit but shouldn't it be better to
> add it to Glib?

Yes, it should live in Glib.

> What I don't get is that it was working fine previously. I was able to
> do $data->{str} to access the content of the string.

That sounds like GString was handled as a bare struct back then, not as 
a boxed type.  Maybe g-ir-scanner changed in the meantime, or maybe the 
Perl bindings.  But regardless, you shouldn't have to do $data->{str}. 
GString should be mapped to and from normal Perl strings.