JNI on Android: How to retrieve a string from Java code?

Question

I read a lot of examples to retrieve a java string in C/C++ code, but it seems that I miss something. this simple code doesn't work..

In ActivityTest (android java code) I've:

public static native void nativeInit(String stringfromjava);

In TestActivity I've:

ActivityTest.nativeInit("test");

and in my test-jni.c:

JNIEXPORT void JNICALL  Java_com_test_jni_ActivityTest_nativeInit(JNIEnv* env, jclass cls, jobject obj, jstring stringfromjava){

__android_log_print(ANDROID_LOG_INFO, "TESTJNI","Native Init started");

const char* w_buf = (*env)->GetStringUTFChars(env, stringfromjava, 0);

if(w_buf == NULL) {
    __android_log_print(ANDROID_LOG_INFO, "TESTJNI","file path recv nothing");
}

else {
        __android_log_print(ANDROID_LOG_INFO, "TESTJNI","String: %s", w_buf);
}

(*env)->ReleaseStringUTFChars(env, stringfromjava, w_buf);

}

But in my logcat I get only:

I/TESTJNI (18921): Native Init started
I/TESTJNI (18921): String:

Where I'm wrong...?

FIXED Thanks to Mario, removing "jobject obj" from the signature fixed my issue!

If Mario's answer fixed the problem for you, you should mark his answer as accepted (click the tick next to his answer). — Timothy Jones, Feb 01 '12 at 02:30
Did you add a static block in Java like this: `static { nativeInit(); }` — IgorGanapolsky, Jun 03 '16 at 15:27

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 31 '12 at 21:25

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Only wrote one short test so far (similar to your program), but my function had a bit different signature (might depend on SDK/NDK/JDK version? took it from some tutorial code I found):

extern "C" void Java_com_whatever_Activity_method(JNIEnv* env, jobject jthis, jstring param);

Obviously you won't need extern "C" if you're not writing C++.

The Java signature would be:

native void method(String param);

Edit:

To obtain the string (not sure if this is 100% correct, but it works):

const char *cparam = env->GetStringUTFChars(param, 0);
// .. do something with it
env->ReleaseStringUTFChars(param, cparam);

Open to suggestions in case there's something wrong in there. It works fine, but might still be some issue, so feel free to comment.

answered Jan 31 '12 at 21:25

Mario

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that's the same thing the OP did. – ethan Jan 31 '12 at 21:41
@ethan: It's not. I'm skipping the `jclass` in the parameter list as well as `JNIEnv` in the string functions. – Mario Feb 01 '12 at 09:31
i was having the exact same problem. Thank you! – ventura8 Feb 23 '16 at 10:04

JNI on Android: How to retrieve a string from Java code?

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