Hello BaseX people,

 

The Java language bindings in BaseX look like a very good way to use Java libraries from XQuery. I’m currently trying to use Lingua (https://github.com/pemistahl/lingua) with BaseX, and mostly have it working, but I’ve not been able to figure out how to call a Java function that takes a vararg (variable arguments) parameter.

 

Here is a bit of XQuery code that shows the problem. I’m using BaseX version 10.6 and the jar for Lingua version 1.2.2 has been added to the classpath. This query should return a LanguageDetectorBuilder object.

 

 

declare namespace Builder = "java:com.github.pemistahl.lingua.api.LanguageDetectorBuilder";

declare namespace Detector = "java:com.github.pemistahl.lingua.api.LanguageDetector";

declare namespace Language = "java:com.github.pemistahl.lingua.api.Language";

 

let $builder :=

  Builder:fromLanguages(

    [

      Language:ENGLISH(),

      Language:DUTCH(),

      Language:GERMAN(),

      Language:SPANISH(),

      Language:FRENCH()

    ]

  )

return $builder

 

The above code produces this error message in the BaseX GUI:

 

[XPTY0004] com.github.pemistahl.lingua.api.LanguageDetectorBuilder:fromLanguages(com.github.pemistahl.lingua.api.Language[]) expected, (CArray) found.

 

If I try making the parameter a sequence instead of an array, replacing () parenthesis for the [] brackets, then this is the error message:

 

[XPTY0004] com.github.pemistahl.lingua.api.LanguageDetectorBuilder:fromLanguages(com.github.pemistahl.lingua.api.Language[]) expected, (List) found.

 

I’ve read through the Java Bindings page in the wiki and tried to rewrite the parameter in different ways, but so far have only gotten different error messages.

 

The signature for the fromLanguages function can be seen at https://github.com/pemistahl/lingua/blob/main/src/main/kotlin/com/github/pemistahl/lingua/api/LanguageDetectorBuilder.kt#L165

 

 

Is there a way to make this work?

 

Thanks,

Vincent

 

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Vincent M. Lizzi

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