package FFI::Platypus::Type::PointerSizeBuffer; use strict; use warnings; use 5.008004; use FFI::Platypus; use FFI::Platypus::API qw( arguments_set_pointer arguments_set_uint32 arguments_set_uint64 ); use FFI::Platypus::Buffer qw( scalar_to_buffer ); use FFI::Platypus::Buffer qw( buffer_to_scalar ); # ABSTRACT: Convert string scalar to a buffer as a pointer / size_t combination our $VERSION = '2.08'; # VERSION my @stack; *arguments_set_size_t = FFI::Platypus->new( api => 2 )->sizeof('size_t') == 4 ? \&arguments_set_uint32 : \&arguments_set_uint64; sub perl_to_native { my($pointer, $size) = scalar_to_buffer($_[0]); push @stack, [ $pointer, $size ]; arguments_set_pointer $_[1], $pointer; arguments_set_size_t($_[1]+1, $size); } sub perl_to_native_post { my($pointer, $size) = @{ pop @stack }; $_[0] = buffer_to_scalar($pointer, $size); } sub ffi_custom_type_api_1 { { native_type => 'opaque', perl_to_native => \&perl_to_native, perl_to_native_post => \&perl_to_native_post, argument_count => 2, } } 1; __END__ =pod =encoding UTF-8 =head1 NAME FFI::Platypus::Type::PointerSizeBuffer - Convert string scalar to a buffer as a pointer / size_t combination =head1 VERSION version 2.08 =head1 SYNOPSIS In your C code: void function_with_buffer(void *pointer, size_t size) { ... } In your Platypus::FFI code: use FFI::Platypus 2.00; my $ffi = FFI::Platypus->new( api => 2 ); $ffi->load_custom_type('::PointerSizeBuffer' => 'buffer'); $ffi->attach(function_with_buffer => ['buffer'] => 'void'); my $string = "content of buffer"; function_with_buffer($string); =head1 DESCRIPTION A common pattern in C code is to pass in a region of memory as a buffer, consisting of a pointer and a size of the memory region. In Perl, string scalars also point to a contiguous series of bytes that has a size, so when interfacing with C libraries it is handy to be able to pass in a string scalar as a pointer / size buffer pair. =head1 SEE ALSO =over 4 =item L Main Platypus documentation. =item L Platypus types documentation. =back =head1 AUTHOR Author: Graham Ollis Eplicease@cpan.orgE Contributors: Bakkiaraj Murugesan (bakkiaraj) Dylan Cali (calid) pipcet Zaki Mughal (zmughal) Fitz Elliott (felliott) Vickenty Fesunov (vyf) Gregor Herrmann (gregoa) Shlomi Fish (shlomif) Damyan Ivanov Ilya Pavlov (Ilya33) Petr Písař (ppisar) Mohammad S Anwar (MANWAR) Håkon Hægland (hakonhagland, HAKONH) Meredith (merrilymeredith, MHOWARD) Diab Jerius (DJERIUS) Eric Brine (IKEGAMI) szTheory José Joaquín Atria (JJATRIA) Pete Houston (openstrike, HOUSTON) =head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2015-2022 by Graham Ollis. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. =cut