Esteemed Monks,
I have been playing with Inline::C and the Perl API recently. What a fun way to program!!

Here is my question:

Simply put, I'm accessing an external C-Library with Inline::C, and I want the C constructor wrapper to bless a hashref, not a scalar. The object, then, could call other wrappers as well as storing some other data in its slots. Let me illustrate this with some code: 

package Foo;

## Inline part skipped.
__C__

SV* new() 
{
     HV* hv = newHV(); 
     Foo* foo = newFoo(); //C constructor. 
     // Now, do something with hv and foo, then 
    return blessed_hashref;
}

void setName(SV* obj, char* name) 
{
      Foo* foo = get_foo_from(obj); 
     
     // and call the Foo-C method:
     Foo_set_name(foo);
}

package main;

my $foo = Foo->new();
$foo->setName("Lorelai");
$foo->{shortname} = "Rory";

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Does this make sense? Or should I not bother the blessed scalar and simply create a hash based Perl class to wrap it?

Thanks!

In reply to Perl API,external C library and blessing a hashref by bakunin

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