giws a window for people using c/c++ into clojure ..

[Sunil S Nandihalli]

Hello everybody,

 I recently came across giws

http://www.scilab.org/products/other/giws

a tool to call java code from c/c++ all it really needs to generate all the jni-wrappers is a simple xml file which indicates the class name and the member functions .. some thing as simple as ...

<package name="example2">

  <object name="MyObjectWithArray">

        <method name="getMyString" returnType="String[]">

        </method>

        <method name="getMyInts" returnType="int[]">

        </method>

        <method name="doNothingPleaseButDisplay" returnType="void">

          <param type="int[]" name="plop" />

          <param type="short[]" name="plop2" />

        </method>

        <method name="setMyStrings" returnType="void">

          <param type="String[]" name="plop" />

        </method>

        <method name="dealingWithBooleans" returnType="boolean[]">

          <param type="boolean[]" name="plop" />

        </method>

  </object>

</package>

given clojure's power of macros .. it should be possible to automate the creation of this xml for every clojure-structure and function by redefining the defstruct and defn  and other similar macros .. I would like to give it a shot .. I am kind of new to all these things .. so would like to hear what the clojure community has to say about this...

Thanks in advance,

Sunil.

[Sunil S Nandihalli]

just as a followup .. this is the solution I got from hoek when I reposted it on the irc

(defn emit-giws-xml [c]
  (let [package (.getPackage c)

        methods (map #(hash-map :name (.getName %)
                                :returnType (str (.getName (.getReturnType %)))


                                :params (map (fn [p] {:name (.getName %)})
                                             (.getParameterTypes %)))
                     (.getMethods c))]

    methods
    ))

(clojure.pprint/pprint (emit-giws-xml Object))



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