This crate provides high-level extensions to help with the usage of [JNI] in Rust code. Internally,
it uses the [jni-rs
] crate for the low-level JNI operations.
Some helper traits are provided, such as:
AsJValue
]: for allowing a JNI type to be convected to a JValue
wrapper type.IntoJava
]: for allowing a Rust type to be converted to a Java type.A [JnixEnv
] helper type is also provided, which is a [JNIEnv
] wrapper that contains an
internal class cache for preloaded classes.
If compiled with the derive
feature flag, the crate also exports a derive procedural macro
for IntoJava
, which allows writing conversion code a lot easier.
An example would be:
```rust use jnix::{ jni::{objects::JObject, JNIEnv}, JnixEnv, IntoJava, };
// Rust type definition
pub struct MyData { number: i32, string: String, }
// A JNI function called from Java that creates a MyData
Rust type, converts it to a Java
// type and returns it.
pub extern "system" fn JavamypackageJniClassgetData<'env>(
env: JNIEnv<'env>,
_this: JObject<'env>,
) -> JObject<'env> {
// Create the JnixEnv
wrapper
let env = JnixEnv::from(env);
// Prepare the result type
let data = MyData::default();
// Since a smart pointer is returned from `into_java`, the inner object must be "leaked" so
// that the garbage collector can own it afterwards
data.into_java(&env).forget()
} ```
```java package my.package;
public class MyData {
public MyData(int number, String string) {
// This is the constructor that is called by the generated IntoJava
code
//
// Note that the fields don't actually have to exist, the only thing that's necessary
// is for the target Java class to have a constructor with the expected type signature
// following the field order of the Rust type.
}
}
```