[fpc-pascal] ppcjvm issues

[Jon Foster]

On 01/26/2017 01:30 PM, Jon Foster wrote:
> On 01/18/2017 01:16 AM, Michael Schnell wrote:
>> On 17.01.2017 19:07, Lars wrote:
>>> If you have a jvm project with lots of code and now want to start using
>>> this code in another regular mode objfpc unix/win32 application...
>> Exactly this as the point I wanted to express. Even when coding an fpc 
>> application or library for use with  jvm, free (and destroy) should be 
>> used and provided in the normal way good old Object Pascal requires. If 
>> jvm does garbage collection under the hood (and not momentarily adheres 
>> to free, as we are used to with Object Pascal) this should be handled as 
>> a hidden implementation detail and as little as possible be communicated 
>> outside, so that using this code in another regular mode objfpc 
>> unix/win32 application can be done as seamlessly as possible .
>
> I agree for seamless compatibility "free" / "destroy" should be provided. 
> As far as I can tell the JVM implementation of TObject does provide 
> these. Using the native Java/Android objects is a lot like using Lazarus 
> / Delphi / TComponent based classes. You create them and whoever you 
> specify as the owner frees them. In this case the JVM is freeing them. 
> But that's not a detail I need concern myself with.
>
> That said, all of the code in my project was written and tested in plain 
> old native compiled code running on my Linux box. Only the UI code is 
> unique to Android. As such I've not run into any problems creating and 
> freeing my native FPC based components. I haven't tried 
> freeing/destroying Java/Android components. I imagine its going to tell 
> me that those methods don't exist on those objects, since those class 
> libraries don't provide them. But maybe FPC has hidden that detail as 
> well. When I get a moment I'll give it a whirl, 'cause I've had many 
> years of training to free what I create. I started my Pascal journey with 
> Delphi 1/2 in '96.
So as I thought Java/Android objects don't apparently have a free or 
destroy method, simulated or otherwise. But any classes defined in Pascal 
provide those methods, if they descend from the default TObject. I think I 
read somewhere that classes can be defined that descend from the base Java 
class but I haven't done it.

- Jon

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