(Copied from GitHub issue)
Issue:
In an attempt to wrap the SciChart Server Licensing shared object using java (JNA), I ended up with strange behavior when calling any function which returns char *. In Java, the returned pointer memory does not start at the correct offset which holds the string value and therefore invalid characters are returned.
Hypothesis:
My guess, after evaluation, is that either the function is returning some std::string object, or that it is actually returning say str.c_str() where str is an std::string. The issue is that returning str.c_str() causes the reference to be dropped once it is out of scope, this means that a dangling pointer is returned. I ended up needing to wrap the function calls in another extern C layer to get the desired functionality in Java, see link below for snippets and attached zip files for source.
- Jonathan Lake asked 1 week ago
We’ll work this through on the github issue and I’ll post back here once we have a solution.
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