Any way to get fully qualified class name of Java class from C/C++?

fbsd30

Hello all,

I am trying out some test JNI code before starting a project that will use a lot of Java API from C++.  I have seen old questions on the same topic and the general responses have always been you can call the getName method on a jclass instance.  However, with my test code always fails to find the getName method (I have other code that works with accessing static methods, inherited methods, non-virtual invocation of super-class methods etc).  Here is my code where I have tried various ways to get at the class name

        void classMethod()
        {
          if ( ! child ) return;

          jmethodID mid = env->GetMethodID( child, "getClass", "()Ljava/lang/Class;" );

          if ( mid )
          {
            jclass clsObj = static_cast<jclass>( env->CallObjectMethod( obj, mid ) );
            if ( ! clsObj ) std::cerr << "classMethod - Cannot retrieve Class object" << std::endl;

            mid = env->GetMethodID( clsObj, "getName", "()Ljava/lang/String;" );
            if ( mid )
            {
              jstring str = static_cast<jstring>( env->CallObjectMethod( clsObj, mid ) );
              displayString( "classMethod", str );
            }
            else
            {
              std::cout << "classMethod - Cannot find getClass.getName, trying direct getName" << std::endl;

              mid = env->GetMethodID( child, "getName", "()Ljava/lang/String;" );

              if ( mid )
              {
                jstring str = static_cast<jstring>( env->CallObjectMethod( clsObj, mid ) );
                displayString( "classMethod", str );
              }
              else std::cerr << "classMethod - Cannot find getClass.getName or getName directly on jclass" << std::endl;
            }
          }
          else std::cerr << "classMethod - Cannot find getClass" << std::endl;
        }

Note that if I just find "java/lang/Class" and then look up getName on it, it works fine.

Environment:

Mac OS X Mavericks

java version "1.7.0_51"

Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_51-b13)

Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.51-b03, mixed mode)

Thanks

Rakesh

fbsd30

Just to clarify, the main intention is not just to get the class name, but eventually I will be a lot more interested in the other methods in the Class such as isInterface or other similar methods I can use to introspect the class.  I forgot to post the response I see when running my test code:

classMethod - Cannot find getClass.getName, trying direct getName
classMethod - Cannot find getClass.getName or getName directly on jclass

jschellSomeoneStoleMyAlias

If the methods do not return a value then an exception was thrown.  You MUST look for that exception.  You can't proceed after the exception.  There are some methods used to manage exceptions.