Protocols

A type that represents any Perl variable.

There are two major cases when some class conforms to this protocol:

• An instance of a class contains a native Perl variable (some SV). In this case it is derived from PerlObject.
• A class conforms to PerlBridgedObject and its instance contains a native Swift object which can be passed to Perl.

Making your own custom types conforming to AnyPerl protocol is undesirable.

A class having Perl representation.

A Swift class which instances can be passed to Perl as a blessed SV.

Implementing an object that conforms to PerlBridgedObject is simple. Declare a static var perlClassName that contains a name of the Perl class your Swift class should be bridged to. Use addPerlMethod method on startup to provide ability to access your methods and attributes from Perl.