In our initial JNI example, we declared a Java method that
took an int parameter and saw that the resulting C function generated by the javah
tool took (along with a couple of other parameters) a parameter of type jint.
In fact, the Java method also returned an int, and the corresponding C method a jint.
Here are
the two side by side as a reminder:
| Java: |
public native static int getDoubled(int n);
|
| C: |
JNIEXPORT jint JNICALL Java_test_Test_getDoubled(JNIEnv *,
jclass, jint);
|
From this example, you'll hopefully be unsurprised to learn that for each Java primitive
type, there is a corresponding C type declared in the JNI headers. So a Java boolean
becomes a C jboolean, a Java char a C jchar etc:
| Java primitive type | Corresponding C type with JNI | Bytes |
|---|
| boolean | jboolean | 1 |
| byte | jbyte | 1 |
| char | jchar | 2 (unsigned) |
| short | jshort | 2 (signed) |
| int | jint | 4 |
| long | jlong | 8 |
| float | jfloat | 4 |
| double | jdouble | 8 |
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