jni jnienv GetStringUTFRegion example c c++ java

GetStringUTFRegion

< void GetStringUTFRegion(JNIEnv *env, jstring str, jsize start, jsize len, char *buf);

Translates len number of Unicode characters beginning at offset start into modified UTF-8 encoding and place the result in the given buffer buf.

Throws StringIndexOutOfBoundsException on index overflow.

LINKAGE:

Index 221 in the JNIEnv interface function table.

Example of GetStringUTFRegion

jclass cls = env->GetObjectClass(obj);

// First get the class object
jmethodID mid = env->GetMethodID(cls, "getClass", "()Ljava/lang/Class;");
jobject clsObj = env->CallObjectMethod(obj, mid);

// Now get the class object's class descriptor
cls = env->GetObjectClass(clsObj);

// Find the getName() method on the class object
mid = env->GetMethodID(cls, "getName", "()Ljava/lang/String;");

// Call the getName() to get a jstring object back
jstring strObj = (jstring)env->CallObjectMethod(clsObj, mid);

// Now get the c string from the java jstring object
const char* str = env->GetStringUTFChars(strObj, NULL);

// Print the class name
printf("\nCalling class is: %s\n", str);

// Release the memory pinned char array
env->ReleaseStringUTFChars(strObj, str);

Note that I haven't taken any actions to check for errors. This is just a small code snippet describing how it could be done. (GetStringUTFRegion)

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Alternatively you could do this instead of using the GetStringUTFChars/ReleaseStringUTFChars:

// Make sure that the buffer is large enough
char str[128];
jint strlen = env->GetStringUTFLength(strObj);
env->GetStringUTFRegion(strObj, 0, strlen, str);
printf("\nCalling class is: %s\n", str);