I am attempting to use the android NDK.
Is there a way to return an array (in my case an int[]) created in JNI to Java? If so, please provide a quick example of the JNI function that would do this.
-Thanks
I am attempting to use the android NDK.
Is there a way to return an array (in my case an int[]) created in JNI to Java? If so, please provide a quick example of the JNI function that would do this.
-Thanks
Based on the asked question, this is already explained in the first answer that how can we pass int[] via jobjectArray. But Here is an example how we can return a jobjectArray which contains lists of data. This can be helpful for situations for example: when someone needs to return data in 2D format to draw some line with x and y points. The below example shows how a jobjectArray can return data in the form of following format:
Java input to the JNI:
Array[Arraylist of x float points][Arraylist of y float points]
JNI output to java:
jobjectArray[Arraylist of x float points] [Arraylist of y float points]
extern "C" JNIEXPORT jobjectArray JNICALL
_MainActivity_callOpenCVFn(
JNIEnv *env, jobject /* this */,
jobjectArray list) {
//Finding arrayList class and float class(2 lists , one x and another is y)
static jclass arrayListCls = static_cast<jclass>(env->NewGlobalRef(env->FindClass("java/util/ArrayList")));
jclass floatCls = env->FindClass("java/lang/Float");
//env initialization of list object and float
static jmethodID listConstructor = env->GetMethodID(arrayListCls, "<init>", "(I)V");
jmethodID alGetId = env->GetMethodID(arrayListCls, "get", "(I)Ljava/lang/Object;");
jmethodID alSizeId = env->GetMethodID(arrayListCls, "size", "()I");
static jmethodID addElementToList = env->GetMethodID(arrayListCls, "add", "(Ljava/lang/Object;)Z");
jmethodID floatConstructor = env->GetMethodID( floatCls, "<init>", "(F)V");
jmethodID floatId = env->GetMethodID(floatCls,"floatValue", "()F");
//null check(if null then return)
if (arrayListCls == nullptr || floatCls == nullptr) {
return 0;
}
// Get the value of each Float list object in the array
jsize length = env->GetArrayLength(list);
//If empty
if (length < 1) {
env->DeleteLocalRef(arrayListCls);
env->DeleteLocalRef(floatCls);
return 0;
}
// Creating an output jObjectArray
jobjectArray outJNIArray = env->NewObjectArray(length, arrayListCls, 0);
//taking list of X and Y points object at the time of return
jobject xPoint,yPoint,xReturnObject,yReturnObject;
//getting the xList,yList object from the array
jobject xObjFloatList = env->GetObjectArrayElement(list, 0);
jobject yObjFloatList = env->GetObjectArrayElement(list, 1);
// number of elements present in the array object
int xPointCounts = static_cast<int>(env->CallIntMethod(xObjFloatList, alSizeId));
static jfloat xReturn, yReturn;
jobject xReturnArrayList = env->NewObject(arrayListCls,listConstructor,0);
jobject yReturnArrayList = env->NewObject(arrayListCls,listConstructor,0);
for (int j = 0; j < xPointCounts; j++) {
//Getting the x points from the x object list in the array
xPoint = env->CallObjectMethod(xObjFloatList, alGetId, j);
//Getting the y points from the y object list in the array
yPoint = env->CallObjectMethod(yObjFloatList, alGetId, j);
//Returning jobjectArray(Here I am returning the same x and points I am receiving from java side, just to show how to make the returning `jobjectArray`)
//float x and y values
xReturn =static_cast<jfloat >(env->CallFloatMethod(xPoint, floatId,j));
yReturn =static_cast<jfloat >(env->CallFloatMethod(yPoint, floatId,j));
xReturnObject = env->NewObject(floatCls,floatConstructor,xReturn);
yReturnObject = env->NewObject(floatCls,floatConstructor,yReturn);
env->CallBooleanMethod(xReturnArrayList,addElementToList,xReturnObject);
env->CallBooleanMethod(yReturnArrayList,addElementToList,yReturnObject);
env->SetObjectArrayElement(outJNIArray,0,xReturnArrayList);
env->SetObjectArrayElement(outJNIArray,1,yReturnArrayList);
__android_log_print(ANDROID_LOG_ERROR, "List of X and Y are saved in the array","%d", 3);
}
return outJNIArray;
Simple solution is that write the array data in a file from C,and then access the file from Java