I went with the Jacob-based solution because it seems like the easiest route
and the Jacob project is quite mature. I suspect that once the method_missing is working for the Win32OLE class 90% of the integration is done. At that point we're just passing everything to the Jacob library and returning objects (and exceptions where appropriate). That being said, I still haven't been able to get 'method_missing' to work. If anyone knows how to do this, let me know. Charlie - I took your advice about removing 'meta = true' from the annotation, but still no dice. Brian On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Charles Oliver Nutter <head...@headius.com>wrote: > FWIW, I don't have a strong preference for either FFI or Jacob-based, > though the Jacob-based approach pushes a lot of the native binding > stuff into someone else's court (i.e. if we just use Jacob, we don't > have to monkey with the FFI binding hassles and may be 90% done > already). > > I do have a strong preference to not duplicate work :) If Brian's got > a good solid start using something like Jacob, it would probably be > the best use of time to help him finish it. I could certainly be > convinced otherwise, but depending on someone else's known-working COM > bridge seems like a good thing to do... > > - Charlie > > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Brian <brian.p.mcdev...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Joseph, > > Take a look at the win32ole project I started on > github.com/bpmcd/win32ole > > This is a similar effort to your proposition. > > > > On Mar 3, 2010, at 9:47 AM, Joseph Athman <jjath...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I really didn't have a major reason for trying to implement this, I just > > figured it is something JRuby should have since MRI has it. I'm also > forced > > to use windows on a regular basis so I have access to a machine to do the > > developing on. > > > > In this JIRA ticket (http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JRUBY-191) it talks > > about using the Jacob library to implement this. I don't know enough > about > > FFI to say whether that would work or not. If using FFI would be better > I > > would be more than happy to try and learn how to use it. It seems like > the > > lack of WIN32OLE support has not really held anyone back so I figure it > > would be a good place to learn since it obviously isn't a high priority. > > > > Joe > > > > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Vladimir Sizikov <vsizi...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> Hi Joseph, > >> > >> I might be *totally* off the base, so don't pay too much attention to > >> what I'm going to say ;) > >> > >> Now that JRuby has great FFI support, my understanding is that one > >> might implement WIN32OLE purely in ruby. > >> Like, for example, we implement Win32API.rb (lib\ruby\1.8\Win32API.rb). > >> > >> Is there particular reason you're going to implement WIN32OLE in Java? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> --Vladimir > >> > >> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Joseph Athman <jjath...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > I've always wanted to contribute something to JRuby so I was looking > >> > through > >> > JIRA and noticed that JRuby still does not have the WIN32OLE api, I > >> > thought > >> > maybe that is something I could try and implement. I quickly > discovered > >> > that I'm not totally sure how to go about this though. I was trying > to > >> > look > >> > at some of the other ruby standard lib classes that have been created, > >> > but > >> > I'm hoping I could get a little help here. My two main questions are > >> > about > >> > the @JRubyMethod annotation and the actual method parameters. It > seems > >> > like > >> > some methods take a ThreadContext object while some don't. Take for > >> > example > >> > this method from the WIN32OLE class: > >> > > >> > WIN32OLE.connect('Excel.Application') # => WIN32OLE object which > >> > represents > >> > running Excel. > >> > > >> > What would the method signature for that look like? I'm guessing this > >> > would > >> > be a static Java method, but I'm not sure. Would there just be one > >> > parameter in the Java code? Would it be an IRubyObject or would be be > a > >> > RubyString? I looked on the JRuby wiki but I didn't really see > anything > >> > about this. If there is more information out there you can just point > >> > me in > >> > that direction. Thanks for any help. > >> > > >> > Joe > >> > > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: > >> > >> http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email > >> > >> > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: > > http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email > > >
