[erlang-questions] Best way to interface Erlang with Java code

[zabrane Mikael]

Hi Michael !

I found a subtle problem when trying your solution when my program returns a
text with one or more "\n".

Eg:
1> re:split (os:cmd ("java transform animals.txt ; echo $?"), "\n").
[<<"Cat">>,
<<"Shark">>,
........                  % a lot of animal names here (more than 1000)
<<"Wolf">>,
 <<"1">>,<<>>]
2>

How then can I distinguish between my program output and the error code
(which is at the end of the list) ?

Thanks
Zabrane

2009/12/5 Michael <erlangy@REDACTED>

>  on my Linux box ...
>
> $ erl
> Erlang R13B03 (erts-5.7.4) [rq:1] [async-threads:0] [hipe]
> [kernel-poll:false]
>
> Eshell V5.7.4  (abort with ^G)
> 1> re:split(os:cmd("java x ; echo $?"),"\n").
> [<<"Exception in thread \"main\" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: x">>,
>  <<"1">>,<<>>]
> 2>
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 06:27:24PM +0100, zabrane Mikael wrote:
> > Hi Sean !
> >
> > Ok I see. But how then cal I handle error code in Erlang if my Java
> program
> > crash or returns something different from error code 0?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Zabrane
> >
> > 2009/12/5 Sean Cribbs <seancribbs@REDACTED>
> >
> > > zabrane Mikael wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi List !
> > >>
> > >> I've a small program written in "Java" which take a filename (input),
> > >> proceed it, and print out
> > >> a text (output).
> > >>
> > >> What's the best way to be able to access to that program from Erlang?
> > >> My whish is get back the "output" as an Erlang binary.
> > >>
> > >> Thanks
> > >> Zabrane
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > > Use os:cmd/1, which returns a string/list -
> > > http://erldocs.com/R13B03/kernel/os.html?search=os&i=5
> > >
> > > Sean
> > >
>
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