Samuel's Tech Blog

I needed a Bioclipse manager method that could take an arbitrary number of arguments, (for a general purpose prolog method mapper). Through a useful discussion with jonalv, we figured out that there exists at least one working way of doing this, while there are a number of ways that do not work across both the Rhino/JavaScript though they work in Java alone.

Working version

This is the only way I got working:

Java method

public ReturnType yourMethod( String[] args ) {
 ...

Calling it from Bioclipse JavaScript environment

var result = yourplugin.yourMethod( [ "arg1", "arg2", "arg3", ... ] );

var args = [ "arg1", "arg2", "arg3", ... ];
var result = yourplugin.yourMethod( args );

Non working ways

What I did also try, which did not work, was for example the following Java method signature:

public ReturnType yourMethod( String argument1, String argument2, String[] args ) {
 ...

and calling from JavaScript like so:

var result = yourplugin.yourMethod( "arg1", "arg2, [ "arg3", "arg4", "arg5", ... ] );

(Tried a few other combinations too, without success)