If you’ve examined the documentation and still have questions that should be part of your initial question. In this case, the JNI function in the example creates a number of arrays. The outer array is comprised of an ‘Object’ array creating with the JNI function NewObjectArray(). From the perspective of JNI, that’s all a two dimensional array is, an object array containing a number of other inner arrays.
The following for loop creates the inner arrays which are of type int[] using the JNI function NewIntArray(). If you just wanted to return a single dimensional array of ints, then the NewIntArray() function is what you’d use to create the return value. If you wanted to create a single dimensional array of Strings then you’d use the NewObjectArray() function but with a different parameter for the class.
Since you want to return an int array, then your code is going to look something like this:
JNIEXPORT jintArray JNICALL Java_ArrayTest_initIntArray(JNIEnv *env, jclass cls, int size)
{
jintArray result;
result = (*env)->NewIntArray(env, size);
if (result == NULL) {
return NULL; /* out of memory error thrown */
}
int i;
// fill a temp structure to use to populate the java int array
jint fill[size];
for (i = 0; i < size; i++) {
fill[i] = 0; // put whatever logic you want to populate the values here.
}
// move from the temp structure to the java structure
(*env)->SetIntArrayRegion(env, result, 0, size, fill);
return result;
}