cni converting String args[]

[Andrew Haley]

Little-John writes:
 > * littlejohn@paranoici.org (littlejohn@paranoici.org) ha scritto:
 > > * Andrew Haley (aph@redhat.com) ha scritto:
 > > >  >       arguments[i] = (char *) elements(argsElements[i]->getBytes());
 > > > 
 > > > If you want chars, you'll need an encoding -- elements returns a
 > > > jchar*.  Try JvGetStringUTFRegion.
 > > 
 > >  ok, I'll let you know
 > 
 > jint A::init(JArray< ::java::lang::String *> *args) {
 > 
 >   int argc = 0;
 >   char* arguments[argc];
 > 
 >   if (args != NULL) // It's a very bad day otherwise
 >   {
 >     argc = args->length;
 >     arguments[argc];
 > 
 >     /*
 >     * convert the JArray<String*>*  in char**
 >     * so in a way suitable for VLC_Init
 >     */
 >     ::java::lang::String** argsElements = elements(args);
 > 
 >     for (int i = 0; i < argc; i++) {
 >       ::java::lang::System::out->println(argsElements[i]->length());
 >       JvGetStringUTFRegion(argsElements[i], 0,
 >       argsElements[i]->length(), arguments[i]);

You need memory to put this in:

    len = JvGetStringUTFLength (argsElements[i]);
    char s[len];
    JvGetStringUTFRegion(argsElements[i], 0, argsElements[i]->length(), s);
    s[len] = 0;


 >       printf("library: %s\n", arguments[i]);
 >     }
 >   }
 >   return 0;
 > }
 > 
 >  does not work. If i issue the command:
 > 
 > % A --help --helpp
 > 
 >  i get
 > 6 (the length of --help)
 > library: --help (the printf)
 > 7 (the length of --helpp)
 > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
 > 
 >  debugging with gdb, I see a strange thing. Maybe related to the
 > gc. On the second iteration, just after the JvGetStringUTFRegion the
 > arguments array is:
 > 
 > (gdb) print arguments 
 > $1 = {0x0, 0x0}
 > 
 >  I can understand why.
 > 
 >  lj