[Jython-users] Introspection on Java object in Jython

[Brian B. <spa...@gm...>]

If I do the following in Java:

Foo foo = new Foo(); // Foo is a user-defined class.

PythonInterpreter pi = new PythonInterpreter();
pi.set("foo", foo);

pi.execfile("somepath")

Then, in the jython file "somepath" I have:

print type(foo)

The jython prints:

<type 'javainstance'>

Now the question: I want to do introspection on foo. I.e. I want to do:

if type(foo) is Types.[insert some type here] : print "Found type for foo"

But I cannot find anything to insert in the braces which matches the type of
foo. I would expect it to be Types.JavaInstance, but no such luck.

Any help would be appreciated.

b.t.w. I attempted to research this by searching on 'javainstance' and other
key words in the user-group archives, but in fact can't get the search to
results for *any* keyword - e.g. something as simple as "classpath". Is
there a known problem with search on the jython user-group archive?

Thanks in advance, Bunker