## Copyright (C) 2007 Michael Goffioul
##
## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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##
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## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function file} {@var{a} =} javaArray (@var{class},@var{[M,N,...]})
## @deftypefnx {Function file} {@var{a} =} javaArray (@var{class},@var{M},@var{N},...)
##
## Creates a Java array of size [@var{M},@var{N},...] with elements of
## class @var{class}. @var{class} can be a Java object representing a class
## or a string containing the fully qualified class name.
##
## The generated array is uninitialized, all elements are set to null
## if @var{class} is a reference type, or to a default value (usually 0)
## if @var{class} is a primitive type.
##
## @example
##   a = javaArray ("java.lang.String", 2, 2);
##   a(1,1) = "Hello";
## @end example
##
## @end deftypefn

function [ ret ] = javaArray (class_name, varargin)

  switch length (varargin)
  case 0
    error ("missing array size");
  case 1
    dims = varargin{1};
  otherwise
    dims = [varargin{:}];
  endswitch

  ret = java_invoke ("org.octave.ClassHelper", "createArray", class_name, dims);

endfunction