Returning an arraylist of string from Native java to JNI

Question

           ArrayList myArraylist;          

           public ArrayList getData(){
               myArraylist = new ArrayList

        

Answer 1

Convert ArrayList to std::vector<std::string>:

static jclass java_util_ArrayList;
static jmethodID java_util_ArrayList_;
jmethodID java_util_ArrayList_size;
jmethodID java_util_ArrayList_get;
jmethodID java_util_ArrayList_add;
static thread_local JNIEnv* env;

void init() {
  java_util_ArrayList      = static_cast<jclass>(env->NewGlobalRef(env->FindClass("java/util/ArrayList")));
  java_util_ArrayList_     = env->GetMethodID(java_util_ArrayList, "<init>", "(I)V");
  java_util_ArrayList_size = env->GetMethodID (java_util_ArrayList, "size", "()I");
  java_util_ArrayList_get  = env->GetMethodID(java_util_ArrayList, "get", "(I)Ljava/lang/Object;");
  java_util_ArrayList_add  = env->GetMethodID(java_util_ArrayList, "add", "(Ljava/lang/Object;)Z");
}

std::vector<std::string> java2cpp(jobject arrayList) {
  jint len = env->CallIntMethod(arrayList, java_util_ArrayList_size);
  std::vector<std::string> result;
  result.reserve(len);
  for (jint i=0; i<len; i++) {
    jstring element = static_cast<jstring>(env->CallObjectMethod(arrayList, java_util_ArrayList_get, i));
    const char* pchars = env->GetStringUTFChars(element, nullptr);
    result.emplace_back(pchars);
    env->ReleaseStringUTFChars(element, pchars);
    env->DeleteLocalRef(element);
  }
}

Push ArrayList from JNI back to Java

If you don't modify this list in JNI, then the best strategy would be to simply keep a global reference to it somewhere in your native code. If you modify it a little, keep this jobject always up-to-date (you will probably need the methods java_util_ArrayList_add or java_util_ArrayList_set).

If you choose to reconstruct the list from scratch the vector, you will unwind the above method:

jobject cpp2java(std::vector<std::string> vector) {
  jobject result = env->NewObject(java_util_ArrayList, java_util_ArrayList_, vector.size());
  for (std::string s: vector) {
    jstring element = env->NewStringUTF(s.c_str());
    env->CallBooleanMethod(result, java_util_ArrayList_add, element);
    env->DeleteLocalRef(element);
  }
  return result;
}

At any rate, be careful with threads when you work with Jni, always attach your native threads and detach before the native thread is destroyed.