GetStaticFieldID what's wrong?

[simons....@gmail.com]

I'm trying to retrieve the GET_META_DATA static field of the android.content.pm.PackageManager class.

but the call GetStaticFieldID return NULL.

any idea

/* retrieve PackageManager */

jmethodID getPackageManager = (*JEnv)->GetMethodID(JEnv, activityClass, "getPackageManager", "()Landroid/content/pm/PackageManager;");

ASSERT(getPackageManager != NULL);

jobject packageManager = (*JEnv)->CallObjectMethod(JEnv, android_app->activity->clazz, getPackageManager);

ASSERT(packageManager != orxNULL);

jclass packageManagerClass = (*JEnv)->GetObjectClass(JEnv, packageManager);

ASSERT(packageManagerClass != NULL);

/* retrieve GET_META_DATA static field */

jfieldID GET_META_DATA_ID = (*JEnv)->GetStaticFieldID(JEnv, packageManagerClass, "GET_META_DATA", "I");

ASSERT(GET_META_DATA_ID != NULL);  <------------------- ASSERT fails here

jint GET_META_DATA = (*JEnv)->GetStaticIntField(JEnv, packageManagerClass, GET_META_DATA_ID);

TIA

Philippe

[simons....@gmail.com]

any idea would be welcome...

[fadden]

On Apr 1, 11:39 am, "simons.phili...@gmail.com"

<simons.phili...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to retrieve the GET_META_DATA static field of the
> android.content.pm.PackageManager class.
> but the call GetStaticFieldID return NULL.

PackageManager is an abstract class, which means GET_META_DATA is
defined in a superclass of the class you retrieved. It appears that
Dalvik has a bug where it doesn't search into the superclass for a
static field.

You can work around this by using FindClass to get android/content/pm/
PackageManager and then issuing GetStaticFieldID on that.

[simons....@gmail.com]

Ok will try...

should i fill a bug on this one?

Tanks for help

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[fadden]

On Apr 5, 2:03 am, "simons.phili...@gmail.com"

<simons.phili...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok will try...
>
> should i fill a bug on this one?

No need (it's a one-word fix, already done).

[Philippe Simons]

Ok

thanks for help, it's working now

and this is more how I would do this in Java. (I'm retrieving the static field of the PackageManager class, not from the object the activity returned)

Philippe

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