TLDR: I'm getting a NPE when I call a Java method from C and nothing obvious is jumping out as the cause.
I have written some JNI code on Linux to call the system call poll for me (to get notifications from an attached device).
Most of it is working pretty well; my C methods are getting called, I'm getting a string from Java, returning a pointer (as an int... I know, so sue me!), and successfully passing that to other methods. I've got a lot of printfs to verify this.
The problem is happening in my C method Java_NativePoller_poll below. The line that does CallVoidMethod seems to work, as the printf which follows is called, but the Java method I'm attempting to call never gets called, and a NullPointerException is then thrown.
Here's the Java code:
public class NativePoller {
public interface NativePollEventHandler {
void handleEvent();
}
/* Opens a file to prepare to poll its status */
public native int watchFile(String fileName, NativePollEventHandler handler);
/* Poll a file previously opened */
public synchronized native void poll(int fd);
/* Clean up */
public native void stopWatching(int fd);
}
And the C code in question:
struct Poller {
struct pollfd fd;
jobject handler;
jclass objclass;
jmethodID method;
};
int wasEx(JNIEnv* env) {
jthrowable ex = (*env)->ExceptionOccurred(env);
if (ex) {
printf("Got an exception!");
(*env)->ExceptionDescribe(env);
(*env)->ExceptionClear(env);
return 1;
}
return 0;
}
JNIEXPORT jint JNICALL Java_NativePoller_watchFile
(JNIEnv* env, jobject nativePoller, jstring fileName, jobject handler) {
(*env)->ExceptionClear(env);
const char* file = (*env)->GetStringUTFChars(env, fileName, NULL);
if (wasEx(env)) return -1;
int fd = open(file, O_RDONLY);
if (fd < 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "Failed to open %s for reading (errno=%d)\n", file, errno);
(*env)->ReleaseStringUTFChars(env, fileName, file);
if (wasEx(env)) return -1;
return fd;
}
(*env)->ReleaseStringUTFChars(env, fileName, file);
if (wasEx(env)) return -1;
struct Poller* poller = malloc(sizeof(struct Poller));
poller->fd.fd = fd;
poller->fd.events = POLLIN;
poller->handler = handler;
jclass objclass = (*env)->GetObjectClass(env, handler);
if (wasEx(env)) return -1;
jmethodID method = (*env)->GetMethodID(env, objclass, "handleEvent", "()V");
if (wasEx(env)) return -1;
printf("Found method %p in class %p\n", method, objclass);
poller->objclass = objclass;
poller->method = method;
printf("Returning poller %p which has descriptor %d\n", poller, poller->fd.fd);
return (int)poller;
}
JNIEXPORT void JNICALL Java_NativePoller_poll
(JNIEnv* env, jobject nativePoller, jint pollerAddress) {
struct Poller* poller = (struct Poller*)pollerAddress;
printf("Polling for %p (%d)\n", poller, poller->fd.fd);
int ret = poll(&poller->fd, 1, 1);
if (ret > 0) {
printf("Got something! Events is %08X", poller->fd.events);
if (poller->fd.events & POLLIN) {
if (poller->method != 0) {
printf("Calling: CallVoidMethod(%p, %p, %p)...\n", env, poller->handler, poller->method);
(*env)->ExceptionClear(env);
(*env)->CallVoidMethod(env, poller->handler, poller->method);
if (wasEx(env)) return;
printf("Called.\n");
}
}
}
}
JNIEXPORT void JNICALL Java_NativePoller_stopWatching
(JNIEnv* env, jobject nativePoller, jint fileDescriptor) {
struct Poller* poller = (struct Poller*)fileDescriptor;
close(poller->fd.fd);
free(poller);
}
(Sorry the code isn't super clean -- I still have a bit of refactoring to do.)
Here's the code that's calling it:
watchFd = nativePoller.watchFile(ROOT_PATH + pinPath + "value", this::triggerEvent);
//...
private void triggerEvent() {
LOG.info("Event triggered!");
}
All my printf output looks like this:
Found method 0x63d03b48 in class 0x63d02860
Returning poller 0x63d036a8 which has descriptor 18
Polling for 0x63d036a8 (18)
Got something! Events is 00000001
Calling: CallVoidMethod(0x63d03d3c, 0x630d0aa8, 0x63d03b48)...
Got an exception!
Exception in thread "Thread-12" java.lang.NullPointerException
at my.package.NativePoller.poll(Native Method)
at my.package.GPIOPinImpl.run(GPIOPinImpl.java:116)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Where's this NPE coming from?
Thanks!