JNIEnv::FindClass("[B")

Mon Apr 4 10:01:00 GMT 2005

Thomas Hallgren writes:
 > Caolan McNamara wrote:
 > > Should FindClass be able to return a jclass for an array of bytes ?
 > > 
 > > db 4 wants to do this so it can make an array of arrays of bytes which
 > > is failing at runtime. i.e. 
 > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=153230
 > > Is it legitimate in the first place ?
 > > 
 > > C.
 > > 
 > > 
 > Why should it not be? Class.forName("[B") must certanly work, why should 
 > the JNI semantics be different?
This:
public class foo2
{
 public static void main (String[] argv) throws Throwable {
 Class c = Class.forName ("[Ljava.lang.String;");
 c = Class.forName ("[B");
 System.out.println (c);
 c = ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader().loadClass ("[[Ljava.lang.String;");
 System.out.println (c);
 }
}
works on other implementations but fails on gcj.
So, the right place to fix this is ClassLoader.loadClass().
Andrew.