Generate JNI header files for class files in JDK 10

We can use gjavah to generate JNI header files.

You can always go via javap. I know, I know. It's ugly, has lots of assumptions, but in case you desperately need to generate headers for lots of files it might be the only option.

#!/bin/bash

# FIRST_ARG - full class name (with package)
# SECOND_ARG - class path

CLASS_NAME=`javap -cp $2 $1 | \
  grep -v "Compiled from" | \
  grep "public class" | \
  cut -f3 -d" " | \
  awk -F"." '{ print $NF }'`

PACKAGE_NAME=`javap -cp $2 $1 | \
  grep -v "Compiled from" | \
  grep "public class" | \
  cut -f3 -d" " | \
  sed s/\.${CLASS_NAME}$//`

DIR_NAME=`echo $PACKAGE_NAME | sed 's|\.|/|g'`
mkdir -p java_jni/${DIR_NAME}

JAVA_FILE_NAME="java_jni/${DIR_NAME}/${CLASS_NAME}.java"

echo "package ${PACKAGE_NAME};" > ${JAVA_FILE_NAME}
echo "public class ${CLASS_NAME} {" >> ${JAVA_FILE_NAME}

javap -cp $2 $1 | grep "native" | while read line; do
  param=0
  comma=`echo $line | grep "," | wc -l`
  while [ $comma -gt 0 ]; do
    line=`echo $line | sed "s/,/ param_${param}|/"`
    let param=param+1
    comma=`echo $line | grep "," | wc -l`
  done
  line=`echo $line | sed "s/)/ param_${param})/" | sed 's/|/,/g'`
  echo "  $line" >> ${JAVA_FILE_NAME}
done

echo "}" >> ${JAVA_FILE_NAME}

mkdir -p c_header
javac -h c_header ${JAVA_FILE_NAME}

I bet it can be made way more beautiful.

For me, now, when I slowly start to think about inevitable move towards Java 10, and all these cases, where I might be surprised by non existing Java source code, I think it's not a bad idea to have some tool at my disposal. Just in case.