Re: Reading from an InputStream

["Alan Knowles" <alan akbkhome com>]

>From what I remember the introspection API was supposed to be able to tag a field as an array of bytes, however it needs documenting in the C code to generate the correct introspection data.

>From there on, seed/GJS should really use ByteArray's to accept data. (This needs implementing in seed, I'm not sure if it has been done in GJS)

The quick work around is to use a standard array, and read Bytes rather than the whole buffer (not very effecient, but will work in the short term.)

Regards
Alan

 --- On 29/Jan/2012, Michael Fletcher wrote: 
> Hi
> 
> I am attempting to read from an InputStream.  I had thought I would be 
> able to use a ByteArray but this did not seem to work.
> 
>  > this.buf = new ByteArray.ByteArray(BUF_SIZE)
>  > is.read_async(this.buf, this.buf.length, 0, null, ptr(this, 
> this.read_ready), null)
> 
> It fails with
> 
>  > Exception was: Error: Argument 'buffer' (type void) may not be null
> 
> Presumably this is because gjs does not know how to map a void* pointer.
> 
> 
> How would I go about mapping something to a void* pointer.  I managed to 
> build and install glib and gobject-introspection.
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