Thread: Store a random C buffer inside a Java String

Hello,

due to compatibility reasons, I need to be able to store a random C buffer inside of a Java String. THis means that the Java String should contain the exact same buffer information (i.e. byte sequence) as the original C buffer. How would I do that?

All the functions I found will always somehow code/decode the C buffer, and modify its content depending on the selected encoding.

I need to doo this inside JNI. Following is what I have:

	unsigned char* cBuffer=getCBuffer();
 
	// Transfer the C buffer to s:
	jstring s=NULL;
   	if (env->EnsureLocalCapacity(2) >= 0)
	{
		jbyteArray bytes = env->NewByteArray(signalLength);
		if (bytes != NULL) 
		{
			env->SetByteArrayRegion(bytes, 0, signalLength,(jbyte *)cBuffer);
			jclass cls = env->FindClass("java/lang/String");
			jmethodID mid = env->GetMethodID(cls, "<init>", "([B)V");
			s = (jstring)env->NewObject(cls, mid, bytes);
			env->DeleteLocalRef(bytes);
		}
	}

Thanks for any help

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Requiring something to be or do something it simply cannot be or do is not a reasonable requirement. Instead, modify your requirement to decode/encode so that the buffer is represented appropriately for the situation.

due to compatibility reasons, I need to be able to store a random C buffer inside of a Java String. THis means that the Java String should contain the exact same buffer information (i.e. byte sequence) as the original C buffer. How would I do that?

Unfortunately, I don't know what environment your coding in, Linux, Windows etc. But I'll assume Windows. First of all, strings are different in C and Java. In Java they are sequences of UTF-16 code points whereas C strings are null terminated sequence of bytes. I believe JNI has two the functions for manipulating these strings. One is "modified UTF-8" byte sequences and the other is arrays of UTF-16 values.

Windows has two types of strings ASCII and Unicode. If your C code is using ASCII strings then use the "modified UTF-8 conversion functions. Otherwise, if you are using Unicode strings then UTF-16 conversion functions are what you need.

Finally, I can't be of much help to you since my Java experience is minimal. But you do have to convert the strings as indicated above.