Passing byte arrays with Inline::Java

[Alessandro Ranellucci]

Hi all,

thanks to the wonderful Inline::Java module I recently published 
these bindings: http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Net::RabbitMQ::Java

However I'm running into a problem. My Java library needs 
strings to be passed as byte arrays, so I'm using the following snippet:

    [ unpack("C*", $string) ]

that creates an arrayref of scalars holding single bytes. This 
is very inefficient but it seemed to work... until I tried to 
pass a string larger than ~156 bytes. It fails with the 
following error:

[perl][3]   error trying to fit args to prototype: 195 out of 
range for type byte at 
/usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.1/Inline/Java/Array.pm line 543

What does this mean? Any workaround?

Also, would it be possible to add an automatic conversion from 
Perl scalars to Java byte arrays?

Thank you and keep up the good work!

    - alessandro.