[cairo] How should bindings deal with surfaces of unknown type?

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 09:05 -0400, Torsten Schoenfeld wrote:
> Aloha,
> 
> when you cairo_surface_create_similar on, say, a PDF surface, you get a
> surface of type CAIRO_INTERNAL_SURFACE_TYPE_META.  But since that's
> internal, all you see is a surface of type 4096.  When language bindings
> encounter such a surface, they have little choice but to represent it as
> a generic surface.  Thus, you can't call PDF specific surface methods on
> the result of calling create_similar on a PDF surface.
> 
> Is there a way to solve this problem?

Wanted to bring it on.  It's crashing on my with Python bindings right
now.  I think the way we want to go is to have a generic cairo_surface_t
object associated to these kind of surfaces.  I know most bindings
probably define that class abstract... No other idea.

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