[Jython-users] Java String to Python string coercion

[Karen L. <k.l...@qu...>]

My jython code calls a java method which returns a String type 

attributes.getValue("eorec","")

I subsequently want to perform an encode on the returned value like so:

endRec.encode("utf-8")

However, I receive an error to indicate that the type of what is
returned is not of python "string" type and therefore encode is not
a possible operation on it:

AttributeError: 'None' object has no attribute 'encode'

Having looked at the documentation under "Accessing Java from Jython" I
would have thought that the coercion from Java type "java.lang.String"
to Python type "string" would have been automatic.  But this doesn't
seem to be happening here.  Can anyone explain ?

Thanks
Karen