//jstring to char*
char* jstringTostring(JNIEnv* env, jstring jstr)
{
char* rtn = NULL;
jclass clsstring = env->FindClass("java/lang/String");
jstring strencode = env->NewStringUTF("utf-8");
jmethodID mid = env->GetMethodID(clsstring, "getBytes", "(Ljava/lang/String;)[B");
jbyteArray barr= (jbyteArray)env->CallObjectMethod(jstr, mid, strencode);
jsize alen = env->GetArrayLength(barr);
jbyte* ba = env->GetByteArrayElements(barr, JNI_FALSE);
if (alen > 0)
{
rtn = (char*)malloc(alen + 1);
memcpy(rtn, ba, alen);
rtn[alen] = 0;
}
env->ReleaseByteArrayElements(barr, ba, 0);
return rtn;
}