Re: G::O::I based bindings and problem passing char array ref

[Jeremy Volkening <jdv base2bio com>]

On Wed, 1 Jun 2016 22:39:45 +0200
Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de> wrote:

> On 31.05.2016 20:07, Jeremy Volkening wrote:
> > > Since new_from_data is currently not annotated to take an array of
> > > bytes, a normal string should work fine in Perl.  This works for
> > > me:
> > >
> > > ---
> > > use Glib::Object::Introspection;
> > > BEGIN {
> > >   Glib::Object::Introspection->setup (
> > >     basename => 'Poppler',
> > >     version => '0.18',
> > >     package => 'Poppler');
> > > }
> > >
> > > my $f = 'some PDF file';
> > > open my $fh, '<:raw', $f or die "Could not open $f: $!";
> > > my $data; { undef $/; $data = <$fh> };
> > > close $fh;
> > >
> > > warn my $d = Poppler::Document->new_from_data ($data, length
> > > $data); ---
> > >
> > > Does it not work for you?
> >
> > No - I get "PDF document is damaged at
> > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.20/Glib/Object/Introspection.pm
> > line 58."
> >
> > What version of Poppler do you have?
>
> 0.41.0, and G:O:I from Git, but I don't think there were any recent
> changes that are relevant.  Does this happen for all PDF files you
> try?

Tried installing the latest glib (2.48), gobject-introspection (2.48),
libpoppler (0.44), and Glib::Object::Introspection (from git) - same
errors.

Can anyone else test that the above code does or doesn't work on their system?
If it's just me I guess I won't worry about it too much, although I'd like to
know why.

Jeremy