Improve handling of boxed types #255

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jwharm merged 3 commits from free-boxed-types into main

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2025-07-30 22:02:59 +02:00

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Copy and free actions for structs was not always working correctly, because Java-GI incorrectly assumed all structs with a get_type() function are boxed types. This PR adds a new utility class for working with boxed types, BoxedUtil, and uses it to:

check if a struct is boxed
copy a struct, using g_boxed_copy if it is a boxed type without a known copy-function
free a struct, using g_boxed_free if it is a boxed type without a known free-function

Copy and free actions for structs was not always working correctly, because Java-GI incorrectly assumed all structs with a `get_type()` function are boxed types. This PR adds a new utility class for working with boxed types, `BoxedUtil`, and uses it to: - check if a struct is boxed - copy a struct, using `g_boxed_copy` if it is a boxed type without a known copy-function - free a struct, using `g_boxed_free` if it is a boxed type without a known free-function