Tutorial: implementing native methods

WARNING: This support is not yet implemented.

Duchess also supports implementing Java native methods, making it easy to call Rust code from Java.

Setup

Be sure to follow the setup instructions.

Example

Given a Java class

package me.ferris;

public class ClassWithNativeMethod {
    int data() { return 22; }
    native String compute(Object o);
}

you can provide an implementation for compute like so:

// First, reflect the class, as described in the "calling Java from Rust" tutorial:
duchess::java_package! {
    package me.ferris;
    class ClassWithNativeMethod { * }
}

use duchess::{java, IntoJava};
use me::ferris::ClassWithNativeMethod;

// Next, provide a decorated Rust function.
// The arguments are translated from Java, including the `this`.
// The return type is either a scalar or `impl IntoJava<J>`
// where `J` is the Java type.
#[duchess::native(me.ferris.ClassWithNativeMethod::compute)]
fn compute(
    this: &ClassWithNativeMethod,
    object: &java::lang::Object,
) -> impl IntoJava<java::lang::String> {
    // in here you can call back to JVM too
    let data = this.data().execute();
    format!("Hello from Rust {data}")
}