[Proj] New proposal of JNI bindings for Proj.4

[Martin Desruisseaux]

Le 29/08/11 17:41, Eric Miller a écrit :
> But, what is the correct behavior if a pointer argument is null or an array 
> size is negative? Call abort()? Would that still crash the JVM? 

Calling exit() has been reported to stop the JVM (I didn't tested myself). I 
presume that it is the same for abort().

Inside a JNI function, if the arguments were provided by the user who invoked 
the function from the Java side, the correct behavior is to throw a Java 
exception (NullPointerException or IndexOutOfBoundsException). JNI functions 
have a JNIEnv argument which allows interaction with the JVM. So we can throw an 
exception from JNI code as below:

         jclass c = (*env)->FindClass(env, "java/lang/NullPointerException");
         if (c) (*env)->ThrowNew(env, c, "/Put some error message here./");
         return; // We need to exit from the C/C++ function.


Of course this apply only to JNI functions. The "normal" C library uses other 
mechanisms (typically no check - or if they check, an error code returned as an 
int).

     Martin

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