RE: Passing a data structure as a byte array

Joe,

You haven't shown what you tried but this worked for me:

package demo;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.PrintStream;


/**
 *
 * @author David Morris
 */
public class TestByteParm {
    public TestByteParm() {
        try {
            File tmpDir = new File("/tmp");
            File tempFile = File.createTempFile("stdout", "", tmpDir);
            System.setOut(new PrintStream(new
FileOutputStream(tempFile)));
        }
        catch (Throwable t) {
            System.err.println("Error overriding standard output to
file.");
            t.printStackTrace(System.err);
        }

    }
        public byte[] method(byte[] data) {
                System.out.println(data.toString());
                data[8] = 'x';
                return data;
        }
}


Dnew              PR              O   extproc(                        
D                                       *JAVA:                        
D                                       'demo.TestByteParm':          
D                                       *CONSTRUCTOR)                 
Dmethod           PR                  LIKE(val)                       
D                                     extproc(                        
D                                       *JAVA:                        
D                                       'demo.TestByteParm':          
D                                       'method')                     
D byteArray                  32767A   CONST VARYING                   
Dbefore           S               O   CLASS(*JAVA:'java.lang.string') 
DtestByteParm     S               O   CLASS(*JAVA:'demo.TestByteParm')
DVal              DS                                                  
D TstVal                        10I 0  INZ(6147)                      
D TstVal2                        5P 0  INZ(6123)                      
D TstVal3                       10A    INZ('Hello')                   
C                   EVAL      testByteParm = new()                    
C                   EVAL      Val = method(testByteParm: val)         
C                   SETON                                        LR   

When I run this I get back my original value with Hxllo.

David Morris

>>> joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 8/26/2004 9:37:17 AM >>>
> From: Joe Pluta
> 
> All I want to do is pass a data structure as a byte array.

Okay, it looks like I'll do this using a character value.  However,
I'd
still like to figure out how to pass a data structure with no
conversion.  More importantly, I'd like to pass that structure in,
modify it, and return it.

Does anybody have any ideas?

Joe