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From: Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid>
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Subject: Re: End of String Problem: Sending C++ string to java code
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 20:30:34 -0400
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On 10/8/2013 8:22 PM, Stefan Ram wrote:
> ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:
>> template< typename S >void serialize( S const s )
>
>    The deserializer in Java, a draft, not extensively tested:
>
> public final class Main
> {
>    public static java.lang.Object deserialize( final java.lang.String s )
>    throws java.lang.Throwable
>    { return new javax.script.ScriptEngineManager().getEngineByName( "JavaScript" )
>      .eval( s.replace( "{", "[" ).replace( "}", "]" ) +" .join( '' )" ); }
>
>    public static void main( final java.lang.String[] args )
>    throws java.lang.Throwable
>    { java.lang.System.out.println( deserialize( "{ '\\x61', '\\x62', '\\x63' }" )); }}

     Granted, "efficiency" is a dirty word nowadays ...

     ... but ...

     ... really?  Is this what it takes to transport a String
across the JNI/Java interface?  REALLY?

     (Not a JNI expert, just someone about to barf.)

-- 
Eric Sosman
esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid