renaming DLL functions in JNA using StdCallFunctionMapper

Question

I'm trying to use JNA with a DLL in Windows, so far I was able to successfully call a function called c_aa_find_devices(). But all the functions start with c_aa and I would like to rename it to find_devices().

From what I gather the way to do this is with StdCallFunctionMapper but I can't find the documentation of how to use it in an example (i.e. how to map a DLL function by name or by ordinal to a desired name in the wrapped Java library interface). Any suggestions on where the docs are?

Answer 1

From the documentation you need to provide a FunctionMapper in the original call to loadLibrary that converts the name. However you also need to keep the standard call mapping so try something like the following:

Map options = new HashMap();

options.
    put(
        Library.OPTION_FUNCTION_MAPPER, 
        new StdCallFunctionWrapper() {
            public String getFunctionName(NativeLibrary library, Method method) {
                if (method.getName().equals("findDevices") 
                    method.setName("c_aa_find_devices");
                // do any others
                return super.getFunctionName(library, method);
            }
        }
    );

Native.loadLibrary(..., ..., options);

Answer 2

All JNA documentation is located at the primary web page, the JavaDoc overview, and the JavaDocs themselves.

The example above is the right idea, in that you need to tweak the function name returned by the generic StdCallFunctionMapper (assuming you're using the stdcall calling convention). However, Method.setName() doesn't exist and you wouldn't want to call it if it did. You'll need to get the String result and replace the Java function name within it with the target native name, e.g.

name = super.getFunctionName();
name = name.replace("find_devices", "c_aa_find_devices");

More generically, you can simply tack on a "c_aa_" prefix to the returned name (or after any leading underscore), since stdcall decorations are at the end of the name.

Answer 3

Using StdCallMapper won't do good - it is supposed to map werid windows std lib names that have embedded total byte lenght of parameters embedded as part of the name. Since it is done to std lib only (just guessing on that, but 99% you'r functions are not the case).

If your dll uses some common prefix on all functions you need just to use something like:

class Mapper implements FunctionMapper{
    public String getFunctionName(NativeLibrary library, Method method) {
       return GenieConnector.FUNCTION_PREFIX + method.getName();
    }
}

Where GenieConnector.FUNCTION_PREFIX is that common prefix. Bear in mind that i implement FunctionMapper, not extend StdCallMapper