How to use eval via Jython?

Translate Java into Jython

• Help me translate this Java into Jython(Python)... I usually horse around in Python but my job is making me use some use some Java libraries thus my resorting to Jython. I am trying to use the an API to access the Enterprise version of SourceForge. VA Software ships a JAR file that wraps their SOAP API. Here is an example code fragment (in Java) that does performs a login and then receives a session key: import com.vasoftware.sf.soap43.webservices.ClientSoapStubFactory; import com.vasoftware.sf.soap43.webservices.sfmain.ISourceForgeSoap; import com.vasoftware.sf.soap43.webservices.sfmain.ProjectSoapList; import com.vasoftware.sf.soap43.webservices.sfmain.ProjectSoapRow; import java.rmi.RemoteException; import java.io.IOException; /** * The SoapRunner class demonstrates how the SOAP APIs can be used * to list, create or edit projects, trackers, artifacts, task groups, * tasks etc. */ public class SoapRunner { /** SourceForge Soap interface handle */ private ISourceForgeSoap mSfSoap; /** Login user name */ private String mLoginUserName; /** Session id */ private String mSessionId; /** Soap server url */ private String mServerUrl; /** * Class consturctor. */ public SoapRunner(String serverUrl) { mServerUrl = serverUrl; mSfSoap = (ISourceForgeSoap) ClientSoapStubFactory.getSoapStub(ISourceForgeSoap.class, serverUrl); ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ } That last line is giving me grief.. My Java skills are weak.. and I can't figure out how that would map to Jython syntax. Help! PS.. don't ask me to access the SourceForge API via CPython. SOAP under CPython is brain dead.. :)

• Answer:

  I can explain the Java, I'll leave to you the transliteration into Jython. Piece by piece: mSfSoap = The declaration above tells us that mSfSoap is a Java reference variable (in C terms, a pointer) of type ISourceForgeSoap ; this reference will be assigned the result of the expression to its right mSfSoap = (ISourceForgeSoap) The parenthesized type name is a cast ClientSoapStubFactory ClientSoapStubFactory is a class imported in the first line of the example code .getSoapStub( is a (static) method of that class getSoapStub(ISourceForgeSoap.class, serverUrl); that method is called with two arguments, the ISourceForgeSoap.class (see below) and the url, a String ISourceForgeSoap.class In Java, all types (both primitives and classes derived from Object) have a "static member" of type Class named class, that is that instance's type's Class. If you had an actual instance, this would be the same Class instance you'd get by calling instance.getClass().