Package org.metabit.platform.interfacing.jnrffi

Class JNRFFISupportFunctions

java.lang.Object

org.metabit.platform.interfacing.jnrffi.JNRFFISupportFunctions

public class JNRFFISupportFunctions
extends Object

supplying missing functions to JNR FFI

Version:

$Id: $Id

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
JNRFFISupportFunctions()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static jnr.ffi.Pointer	generateNullTerminatedStringArray(jnr.ffi.Runtime runtime, List<String> inputStrings, Charset inputEncoding, int targetBufferOffset)	encode strings for passing to a function which expects an NULL-terminated array of strings.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

JNRFFISupportFunctions

public JNRFFISupportFunctions()

Method Details

generateNullTerminatedStringArray

public static jnr.ffi.Pointer generateNullTerminatedStringArray(jnr.ffi.Runtime runtime,
 List<String> inputStrings,
 Charset inputEncoding,
 int targetBufferOffset)

encode strings for passing to a function which expects an NULL-terminated array of strings.

Parameters:

runtime - the library runtime handle, used for allocation and size calculation

inputStrings - the strings to be passed

inputEncoding - the encoding to be used (e.g. Charset.defaultCharset() ).

targetBufferOffset - offset to use; keep 0 for most cases.

Returns:

FFI Pointer for passing. this is the counterpart to the existing function Pointer.getNullTerminatedStringArray(0); Parameter checking is expected to be performed by the calling function.