## Copyright (C) 2007 Michael Goffioul
##
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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}, @dots{})
##
## Creates a Java array of size @code{[@var{M}, @var{N}, @dots{}]} with
## elements of class @var{class}.  @var{class} may 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 retval = javaArray (class_name, varargin)

  switch length (varargin)
    case 0
      error ("missing array size");

    case 1
      dims = varargin{1};

    otherwise
      dims = [varargin{:}];
  endswitch

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

endfunction