beanshell arrays

From:
"Stewart" <stewart.cambridge@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
12 Sep 2006 03:56:45 -0700
Message-ID:
<1158058605.500140.261740@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>
Dear All,

I was hoping that the beanshell (2.0b4) would allow you to set array
elements just like any other object, by using the set command:

interpreter.set( "array[0]", object );

but it doesn't work.
You have 2 other options for dynamically setting array elements in
beanshell:

import bsh.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;

public class Test5
{
  public static void main(String[] args)
    throws Exception
  {
    Interpreter interpreter = new Interpreter(new
InputStreamReader(System.in), System.out, System.err, false);

    Object array = new Long[3];
    interpreter.set( "array", array );

    // option 1 - doesn't work
    interpreter.set( "array[0]", new Long(1) );
    interpreter.eval( "print( array )" );

    // option 2
    interpreter.set( "temp", new Long(2) );
    interpreter.eval( "array[1] = temp" );
    interpreter.eval( "print( array )" );

    // option 3
    java.lang.reflect.Array.set( array, 2, new Long(3));
    interpreter.eval( "print( array )" );
  }
}

Stewart,
London, UK

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