com.sun.jna
Class NativeString

java.lang.Object
  com.sun.jna.NativeString

All Implemented Interfaces:

CharSequence, Comparable

 class NativeString
extends Object
implements CharSequence, Comparable

Provides a temporary allocation of an immutable C string (const char* or const wchar_t*) for use when converting a Java String into a native memory function argument.

Author:

Todd Fast, todd.fast@sun.com, twall@users.sf.net

WIDE_STRING

static final String WIDE_STRING

See Also:

Constant Field Values

NativeString

public NativeString(String string)

Create a native string (NUL-terminated array of char).

Uses the encoding returned by Native.getDefaultStringEncoding().

NativeString

public NativeString(String string,
                    boolean wide)

Create a native string as a NUL-terminated array of wchar_t (if wide is true) or char.

If not wide, the encoding is obtained from Native.getDefaultStringEncoding().

Parameters:

string - value to write to native memory

wide - whether to store the String as wchar_t

NativeString

public NativeString(WString string)

Create a native string as a NUL-terminated array of wchar_t.

NativeString

public NativeString(String string,
                    String encoding)

Create a native string (NUL-terminated array of char), using the requested encoding.

hashCode

public int hashCode()

Overrides:

hashCode in class Object

equals

public boolean equals(Object other)

Overrides:

equals in class Object

toString

public String toString()

Specified by:

toString in interface CharSequence

Overrides:

toString in class Object

getPointer

public Pointer getPointer()

charAt

public char charAt(int index)

Specified by:

charAt in interface CharSequence

length

public int length()

Specified by:

length in interface CharSequence

subSequence

public CharSequence subSequence(int start,
                                int end)

Specified by:

subSequence in interface CharSequence

compareTo

public int compareTo(Object other)

Specified by:

compareTo in interface Comparable