ION Java User's Guide: ION Java Class and Method Reference

getDimensionedByteArray()

The getDimensionedByteArray method returns the byte array value of the variable. The result contains the same number of dimensions as the variable.

Syntax

public final Object getDimensionedByteArray

(where Object can be a 1- to 8-dimensional array of Java primitive type 'byte')

Return

The method returns the multidimensional byte array value of the variable.

Arguments

None.

Exceptions

IONNotAnArrayException

Example

IONVariable myVariable = c_ionCon.getIDLVariable("my3dByteArr");  
byte b3d[][][];  
try {  
b3d = (byte[][][])myVariable.getDimensionedByteArray();  
} catch(IONNotAnArrayException e) {  
   System.err.println("Variable is not an array");  
}