How can I create wrapper classes for generated c structs? Whats the common pattern? I want to hide a...

# kotlin-native

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How can I create wrapper classes for generated c structs? Whats the common pattern? I want to hide away the usage of pointers, c values, and such and leave that as internals. Trying to create a kotlin port of a c lib which I then want to call within a kotlin jvm project. Not sure if this is possible or proper way of doing so though as I have little experience.

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class Vector3D(var x: Float, var y: Float, var z: Float) {
    internal fun asNative() = nativeHeap.alloc<aiVector3D> {
        x = this@Vector3D.x
        y = this@Vector3D.y
        z = this@Vector3D.z
    }

    companion object {
        internal fun create(cPointer: CPointer<aiVector3D>): Vector3D {
            val aiVector = cPointer.pointed
            return Vector3D(aiVector.x, aiVector.y, aiVector.z)
        }
    }
}

Would this be a proper way?

[Clocks]

Check out kotlinx-gtk for an example

[Clocks]

Essentially you need to make the pointer an internal value only