Studio API question

[lotus298]

This is more of a Java question than an API question. In the following code snippet, I am calling an API function that should return a boolean value. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how to cast the returned object to a boolean. Does anyone know how to do this?

thanks.

public static boolean DeleteFile(Object mediafile)
throws InvocationTargetException {
    try {
        Object obj = SageTV.api("DeleteFile", mediafile);
        <how do i cast obj to boolean so I can return it?>
        return <the new boolean value>;
    } catch (InvocationTargetException ite) {
        throw new InvocationTargetException(ite,"Exception caught");
    }
}

[nielm]

Originally Posted by lotus298

This is more of a Java question than an API question. In the following code snippet, I am calling an API function that should return a boolean value. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how to cast the returned object to a boolean. Does anyone know how to do this?

SageAPIs always return objects, so you if you want the native type, you need to convert them to the correct Object wrapper, then use the function to retrieve the native type...

Check out my SageTV.api() wrappers in the nielm_sageutils.jar package (source in CVS) specifically the booleanApi function...

The Object return value is cast to a Boolean object, then Boolean.booleanvalue() is used to return the real boolean value...

(This is also how it is done for Long, Integer, Float, Double etc etc)

[lotus298]

I'll check that out. Thanks for the help.