How to invoke non-dispatched member functions?

[mkarg]

I need to invoke a COM server which only partially supports IDispatch.
It works when calling from C++, but I wonder how to do the same in Java.

That COM-Server exposes a C-interface which extends C-IDispatch (so JACOB is actually able to find it by IID and expose it as Java-IDispatch), but some of its custom C-member-functions are not exposed as COM-IDs or COM-Names! 😢

A C++ client has no problem with this, as the C++ compiler directly uses the vtable to call those unexposed member functions.

But how can JACOB invoke those unexposed member functions? 🤔

[EJP286CRSKW]

It can't. You'll have to write a bit of JNI yourself.

[mkarg]

That's really a pity. Are there plans to extend JACOB's functionality in this direction?

[EJP286CRSKW]

Don't ask me, not my project. But I've been preparing some patches, well, rewrites, that I hope will become the next version. Fixing a million memory leaks, for example. EJP

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[freemansoft]

PRs would be great!