[gdal-dev] SWIG JNI binding question with GetMetadataItem function

[Jim Pendleton]

In GDAL 1.8.1 I'm attempting to call GetMetadataItem() within the
context of an Android 2.2 Java app, but I'm getting an error,
specifically

 

08-10 22:13:41.750: WARN/dalvikvm(546): JNI WARNING: jstring 0x40569100
points to non-string object (Check_GetStringUTFChars)

 

An access violation error follows this.

 

I've successfully opened the image and have a valid Dataset object.
I've debugged my way through the JPIPKAKDataset initialization method so
I'm pretty confident that much is working properly.

 

I don't know if this is a problem with the swig bindings or something
else.  I hope someone's run into this one before.

 

My Java code is really straightforward:

      public int getDecompositionLevels() {

            if (gdalDataset != null)

            {

                  String key = "JPIP_NRESOLUTIONLEVELS";

                  String domain = "JPIP";

                  return
Integer.parseInt(gdalDataset.GetMetadataItem(key, domain));

            } else {

                  return -1;

            }

      }

This corresponds to the API definition found here:

 

http://gdal.org/java/org/gdal/gdal/MajorObject.html#GetMetadataItem(java
.lang.String, java.lang.String)

 

I've also tried the variant that uses a default domain string with the
same error as a result.

 

I'm using the gdal_wrap.cpp generated in the swig/java directory along
with corresponding gdal.jar file.

 

The org.gdal.gdal.MajorObject.java class defines the interface as

 

  public String GetMetadataItem(String pszName, String pszDomain) {

    return gdalJNI.MajorObject_GetMetadataItem__SWIG_0(swigCPtr, this,
pszName, pszDomain);

  }

 

The swig interface file MajorObject.i defines this as

 

/*

 * GetMetadataItem

 */

  %apply Pointer NONNULL {const char * pszName};

  const char *GetMetadataItem( const char *pszName, const char
*pszDomain = "" ) {

    return GDALGetMetadataItem( self, pszName, pszDomain);

  }

 

While the generated gdal_wrap.cpp is

 

SWIGINTERN char const
*GDALMajorObjectShadow_GetMetadataItem__SWIG_0(GDALMajorObjectShadow
*self,char const *pszName,char const *pszDomain=""){

    return GDALGetMetadataItem( self, pszName, pszDomain);

}

 

I've found a thread discussing a similar issue under the android-ndk
group, but without the swig component:

 

http://groups.google.com/group/android-ndk/browse_thread/thread/27e83cdf
168bc0bb/db151ea4c15362c5?show_docid=db151ea4c15362c5

 

I infer from that discussion that either the GDAL interface definition
file needs to be tweaked or I need to use javah instead of swig.

 

I'm still new to all of this (including GDAL) so assume I'm missing
something blatantly obvious.

 

Thanks for any help,

Jim P.

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