Re: How to invoke assignment operator in a native method?

From:
"Oliver Wong" <owong@castortech.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:26:33 GMT
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"HappyHippy" <karenman@mail.ru> wrote in message
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Gordon Beaton wrote:

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 13:44:41 -0400, HappyHippy wrote:

Can I do something like this for Integer's assignment operator?
Something like:

jmethodID methodId = env->GetMethodID(objClass, "=",
"(Ljava/lang/Integer;)Ljava/lang/Integer;");


Please explain exactly what it is you're trying to achieve, not how
you hope to achieve it.

To see what methods the Integer class has, use javap -s. The only way
to assign a value to an Integer is to specify the value when you
invoke the constructor.

If your class has an Integer field and you want to assign an
(existing) Integer *object* to it, use SetObjectField().

Please don't multipost. I've *crossposted* this reply and set
followups to c.l.j.programmer.

/gordon


I want to achieve the effect of the following assignment (which can be
done in Java)

SomeNumber = 5;

where SomeNumber is of type java.lang.Integer

But in a native method I do not have an Integer object, I have jobject
instead.
So, my question is: is it possible to invoke assignment operator "=" on
the object referenced by jobject?
As far as I know (I don't know much about Java...) assignment operator is
kind of special and it is "hidden" in Java.


    This is basically what the compile does under the covers:

Integer someNumber = Integer.valueOf(5);

    If you know how to express that in your native code, then you can
perform the assignment.

    - Oliver

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