Hi Burkhard,

The thing about the warn argument is that it can be updated by the Java call. So I think you will need to pass in a suitable Java object.
For this case I tried an  ArrayList

import module namespace bdrc = "io.bdrc.ewtsconverter.EwtsConverter";
let $warn:=Q{java.util.ArrayList}new()
let $roman := "bk ra shise bde legs"
let $result:=bdrc:toUnicode($roman,$warn,true(),false())
return map{"result": $result,
           "warn": Q{java.util.ArrayList}toString($warn)
         }

Results in
map {
  "warn": "[line 1: ""bk"": Expected vowel after ""k"".]",
  "result": "བཀ་ར་ཤིསེ་བདེ་ལེགས"
}

I don't know if this is right or not. There are better ways to pick apart $warn.

/Andy




On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 at 13:16, Burkhard Quessel <bquessel@gmail.com> wrote:
Subject: java binding passing variables

 

I am trying to use xquery to transform Tibetan which is presented in Roman script to Unicode, i.e. into original Tibetan script. For this I use existing java code from here:

https://github.com/buda-base/ewts-converter/blob/master/src/main/java/io/bdrc/ewtsconverter/EwtsConverter.java

 

I add the jar of this code (https://jar-download.com/artifact-search/ewts-converter)  to my basex library and import like this:

import module namespace bdrc = "io.bdrc.ewtsconverter.EwtsConverter";

I can then use a java method to convert my Romanised Tibetan text to Unicode Original Tibetan script like so:

  

let $roman := "bkra shis bde legs"

return

bdrc:toUnicode($roman)

 

so far it works perfectly:

བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས

 

My  problems begin when I try to add additional parameters to the conversion.

 

 The java documentation lists a number of possible parameters:

toUnicode(String str, List<String> warns, boolean sloppy, boolean lenient)

(I want the “warns” one) but I am just too stupid to figure out how exactly to include this in in my  xquery code. Can anyone help out?

 

 Thanks Burkhard