Thanks! That solved the problem perfectly!
Jochen Wiedmann wrote:
>
> It is more than likely that you ought to use a hash *reference*, not a
> hash. In other words:
>
> $hashTable = {};
> $hashTable->{"first"} = 1;
> $hashTable->{"second"} = 2;
> return $hashTable;
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 9:16 PM, BlackMage <dsd7...@uncw.edu> wrote:
>>
>> I am having problem with a Java program that calls a Perl/CGI Script,
>> creates
>> a hash and returns. A simple example looks like this:
>>
>> Perl Script:
>>
>> [code]
>>
>> sub createHash{
>>
>> %hashTable = ();
>>
>> $hashTable{"first"} = 1; # inserts a new hash table entry with
>> key="first"
>> and value=1
>> $hashTable{"second"} = 2; # new entry with key="second" and value=2
>>
>> return %hashTable;
>>
>> }#end createHash
>>
>> [/code]
>>
>> Java Program
>>
>> {code}
>>
>> public void getHash(){
>>
>> HashMap hashmap=new HashMap();
>> Vector params = new Vector();
>>
>> //Create Variables
>> try {
>> XmlRpcClient xmlrpc = new
>> XmlRpcClient(SERVER_URL);
>>
>> //Set Strings
>> String methodName = "MyProgram.createHash";
>>
>>
>>
>> System.out.println(xmlrpc.execute( methodName, params));
>> //The line below is commented out because it throws an
>> error
>> //hashmap=(HashMap) xmlrpc.execute( methodName, params);
>>
>>
>>
>> } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
>> // TODO Auto-generated catch block
>> e.printStackTrace();
>> } catch (XmlRpcException e) {
>> // TODO Auto-generated catch block
>> e.printStackTrace();
>> } catch (IOException e) {
>> // TODO Auto-generated catch block
>> e.printStackTrace();
>> }
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> }//end class
>>
>> {code}
>>
>>
>> The problems are this, when, I System.out.print the return hash created
>> in
>> Perl, is only prints out the last value. When I cast the return value to
>> a
>> Java Hash, it throws a string execption.
>>
>> So how do I return a hash table or multiple values from a perl program?
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