[jibberia]

Hello all-

I'm trying to use semacodes (semacode.org) in a python app. The api they provide comes in the form of a java jar, which you send a filename for an image to process.

I'd love to not need to use MIDP for this app - python suits it much better, except for the semacode part.

In "normal" python, I'd use the commands library:
import commands
commands.getoutput("java -jar semacode.jar -f some_file.jpg")

Commands isn't available in PyS60. Is there an alternative?

Thanks,
Kevin

[jibberia]

Begging... any ideas? Even incomplete hacks of whimsy?

[otsov]

Originally Posted by jibberia

Commands isn't available in PyS60. Is there an alternative?

Local sockets should work for you, see e.g. http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/fo...s+flash+python. Here is a paper ("Extending the Reach of MIDlets: how MIDlets can access native services") discussing the issue http://developer.symbian.com/main/os...midp/index.jsp.

[jplauril]

Local sockets solve the problem of communicating with the Java process once it has been started, but don't help with starting the Java app.

Anyone know what you actually need to do to start a Java application? Is there some VM executable somewhere that you could run and pass the .jar to it as an argument? Python does has e32.start_exe and that has been used successfully to start a web browser from Python.

[quickie]

sorry to bump this up again. has there been any progress on launching generic jar files and get their output back as a string?

cheers,
flux

[quickie]

Just had a look at the pys60 sources for the start_exe method. It seems, that only the errorcode is returned back from the executed program. So without modifying semacode.jar to support e.g. sockets, i can't see a way to do it.