com.sun.jna

Interface Callback

public interface Callback

All callback definitions must derive from this interface. Any derived interfaces must define a single public method (which may not be named "hashCode", "equals", or "toString"), or one public method named "callback". You are responsible for deregistering your callback (if necessary) in its Object#finalize method. If native code attempts to call a callback which has been GC'd, you will likely crash the VM. If there is no method to deregister the callback (e.g. atexit in the C library), you must ensure that you always keep a live reference to the callback object.

A callback should generally never throw an exception, since it doesn't necessarily have an encompassing Java environment to catch it. Any exceptions thrown will be passed to the default callback exception handler.

Nested Class Summary
static interfaceCallback.UncaughtExceptionHandler
Field Summary
CollectionFORBIDDEN_NAMES
These method names may not be used for a callback method.
StringMETHOD_NAME
You must this method name if your callback interface has multiple public methods.

Field Detail

FORBIDDEN_NAMES

public Collection FORBIDDEN_NAMES
These method names may not be used for a callback method.

METHOD_NAME

public String METHOD_NAME
You must this method name if your callback interface has multiple public methods. Typically a callback will have only one such method, in which case any method name may be used, with the exception of those in FORBIDDEN_NAMES.
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