On Wednesday, 1 January 2020 at 17:35:28 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
bindings generator
oh one thing I forgot to mention on this is that right now it
generates interfaces, but doesn't list them; each class is just
class Foo : IJavaObject {}
instead of
class foo : ActualParent, IWhateverElse {}
All that is possible, of course, and would probably be pretty
useful. But I didn't do it for the same reason everything is
listed `final` right now - doing so would mean the vtable needs
to be populated... which means the linker is going to go looking
for those implementations. 4000 classes of implementations (and
ungodly build time) forced on you when you probably only want a
handful.
so.... well, this is my solution until it is dead or I find
something better.
I do think interfaces are important long term, and since JNI
actually dynamically binds by name there's a few options
available to me to make it work, even with the lazy linking.
But for now if you look in the source, there's this stuff and a
bunch of reinterpret cast FIXME comments in places where
something needs to change for full support. just even without all
that this is still pretty useful!
