An experiment with Project Panama: Windows TransmitFile

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

Hi Pedro,
thanks for giving Panama a try - the resulting program is indeed very 
readable.

One question (think of it as my personal questionnaire) - what did you 
use to generate the various linker method handles/layouts? Did you use 
jextract and then did a manual filtering pass to remove what you didn't 
want, or did you just manually hand-written the various  
functions/layouts from Windows.h which were required in your program? 
Note: there's no good/bad answer, I'm mostly interested in understanding 
how developers get the job done using the new APIs/tools :-)

Thanks!
Maurizio

On 21/11/2020 01:27, Pedro Lamarão wrote:
> Hello all!
> First and foremost, thank you for your excellent work!
>
> I'd like to contribute an experiment with the foreign linker.
> Maybe evaluating such things is useful somehow.
> It is a program that calls a specialized Windows API to transmit a file
> over a socket.
> https://github.com/pedrolamarao/sandbox-jvm-sendfile/tree/panama
>
> I think the result is very readable!
> It took me approximately 5 hours to complete this, including studying
> Project Panama's technical documentation.
>