Pass a Ruby block to a Java method

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I need my JRuby method to recieve a report of what is going on in a Java method and act accordingly:

def my_long_running_method
  # ... do stuff ...

  jObject.count_all_disk_files do |number_of_files|
    stream.write "#{number_of_files} files found so far."
  end

  # ... do more stuff ...
end

I saw this question but I couldn't understand what I need to do.

I've known Ruby for a long time and a little of Java. This project needs to be JRuby because of old Java code that needs to be integrated with new Ruby code.

Shepmaster · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-11 21:23:04Z

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For a complete reference, see the Calling Java From JRuby wiki page, specifically the section about closure conversion. The short answer to your question is that your Java method count_all_disk_files will need to accept an interface with a single method (a "functional interface"). Then JRuby will be able to automatically implement that interface with the code from the block.

answered Jan 11, 2014 at 21:23

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Nicos Karalis Over a year ago

this helped me a lot, even more then the official docs. thanks

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