From: Colin Bartlett <colinb2r@...>
Date: 2009-10-15T05:03:25+09:00
Subject: Re: how to solve a special JRuby and Java syntax conflict?

I'm not sure whether the following will help or not.
I'm not a JRuby or Java expert, but I am using both.

I'm developing something which does numeric calculations in Java for speed,
but which uses JRuby for easy scripting and interractive (jirb) work,
and I need to set up numeric arrays which "stay" in Java,
but I haven't got around to testing populating the Java arrays from JRuby.

Your original question prompted me to try it, and the following seems to work.
(Ignore the non-array bits!)
Is this the sort of thing you are trying to do?

Colin Bartlett

// Java code, which I compiled to a class, and converted to a jar
package path_to_dir_of_java_file;
import java.io.*;

public class ActCal_value {
    public double float_value;
    public double[][] arr;
    // constructor
    public ActCal_value(double float_value_v) {
        float_value = float_value_v;
    }
    public void set_arr_dims(int dim1, int dim2) {
        arr = new double[dim1][dim2];
    }
    public void set_arr_val(int index1, int index2, double vv) {
        arr[index1][index2] = vv;
    }
    public void print_arr() throws IOException {
        System.out.println("* arr==");
        for( int i0 = 0; i0 < arr.length; i0++) {
            System.out.print("* arr[" + i0 + "]");
            for( int i1 = 0; i1 < arr[i0].length; i1++) {
                System.out.print( " [" + i1 + "]=" + arr[i0][i1] + ";");
            }
            System.out.println( "" );
        }
    }
}

# Ruby code, setting up Java array using above Java method set_arr_dims,
# and populating Java array arr in two ways:
# (1) using above Java method set_arr_val;
# (2) using Ruby array element access;
include Java
require "path_to_jar/jar_file.jar"
include_class "jar_path.ActCal_value"

acv = ActCal_value.new( 42.3 )
puts "** acv = " + acv.inspect
p acv.float_value

aa = [ [0.0, 0.1, 0.2], [1.0, 1.1, 1.2] ]
acv.set_arr_dims(aa.size, aa[0].size)
acv.print_arr()
aa.each_with_index do | ar, idx0 |
  ar.each_index do | idx1 |
    acv.set_arr_val( idx0, idx1, aa[idx0][idx1] )
  end
end
acv.print_arr()
puts acv.arr[1][2]

acv.arr[1][2] = 11.22
acv.print_arr()
puts acv.arr[1][2]

aa << [2.0, 2.1, 2.2]
acv.set_arr_dims(aa.size, aa[0].size)
aa.each_with_index do | ar, idx0 |
  ar.each_index do | idx1 |
    acv.arr[idx0][idx1] = aa[idx0][idx1]
  end
end
acv.print_arr()
puts acv.arr[1][2]