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

[Jeremy Volkening <jdv base2bio com>]

> 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?

Jeremy