JNI – How to callback from C++ or C to Java?

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There are many valid ways to callback into Java from C/C++. I’m going to show you a technique using C (easy to adjust env for C++) that makes it fairly easy to pass data from native code to Java code.
This example passes strings ( easy to modify for any data type ).

In native code, create the following:

// Globals
static jmethodID midStr;
static char * sigStr = "(Ljava/lang/String;ILjava/lang/String;)V";

// Init - One time to initialize the method id, (use an init() function)
midStr = (*env)->GetMethodID(env, class, "javaDefineString", sigStr);

// Methods
static void javaDefineString(JNIEnv * env, jobject o, char * name, jint index, char * value) {
  jstring string = (*env)->NewStringUTF(env, name);
  (*env)->CallVoidMethod(env, o, midStr, string, index, (*env)->NewStringUTF(env, value));
}

In Java code create the following:

Map<String, String>  strings = new HashMap<String, String>();

// Never call this from Java
void javaDefineString(String name, int index, String value) {
  String key = name + "." + index;
  strings.put(key, value);
}

Native usage to send data:

javaDefineString(env, o, "Greet", 0, "Hello from native code");
javaDefineString(env, o, "KeyTimeout", 0, "one second");
javaDefineString(env, o, "KeyTimeout", 1, "two second");

Java usage to receive data:

System.out.println(strings.get("Greet.0");
System.out.println(strings.get("KeyTimeout.0");
System.out.println(strings.get("KeyTimeout.1");

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