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<p class="author"><a href=".">Alexis Métaireau</a>'s thougths</p>
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<h1>Using JPype to bridge python and Java</h1>
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<p class="date">Published on Sat 11 June 2011</p>
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<p>Java provides some interesting libraries that have no exact equivalent in
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python. In my case, the awesome boilerpipe library allows me to remove
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uninteresting parts of HTML pages, like menus, footers and other "boilerplate"
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contents.</p>
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<p>Boilerpipe is written in Java. Two solutions then: using java from python or
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reimplement boilerpipe in python. I will let you guess which one I chosen, meh.</p>
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<p>JPype allows to bridge python project with java libraries. It takes another
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point of view than Jython: rather than reimplementing python in Java, both
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languages are interfacing at the VM level. This means you need to start a VM
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from your python script, but it does the job and stay fully compatible with
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Cpython and its C extensions.</p>
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<div class="section" id="first-steps-with-jpype">
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<h2>First steps with JPype</h2>
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<p>Once JPype installed (you'll have to hack a bit some files to integrate
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seamlessly with your system) you can access java classes by doing something
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like that:</p>
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<div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">jpype</span>
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<span class="n">jpype</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">startJVM</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">jpype</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">getDefaultJVMPath</span><span class="p">())</span>
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<span class="c"># you can then access to the basic java functions</span>
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<span class="n">jpype</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">java</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">lang</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">System</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">out</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">println</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">"hello world"</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<span class="c"># and you have to shutdown the VM at the end</span>
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<span class="n">jpype</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">shutdownJVM</span><span class="p">()</span>
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</pre></div>
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<p>Okay, now we have a hello world, but what we want seems somehow more complex.
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We want to interact with java classes, so we will have to load them.</p>
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<div class="section" id="interfacing-with-boilerpipe">
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<h2>Interfacing with Boilerpipe</h2>
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<p>To install boilerpipe, you just have to run an ant script:</p>
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<pre class="literal-block">
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$ cd boilerpipe
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$ ant
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</pre>
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<p>Here is a simple example of how to use boilerpipe in Java, from their sources</p>
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<div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">package</span> <span class="n">de</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">l3s</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">boilerpipe</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">demo</span><span class="o">;</span>
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<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">java.net.URL</span><span class="o">;</span>
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<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">de.l3s.boilerpipe.extractors.ArticleExtractor</span><span class="o">;</span>
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<span class="kd">public</span> <span class="kd">class</span> <span class="nc">Oneliner</span> <span class="o">{</span>
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<span class="kd">public</span> <span class="kd">static</span> <span class="kt">void</span> <span class="nf">main</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="kd">final</span> <span class="n">String</span><span class="o">[]</span> <span class="n">args</span><span class="o">)</span> <span class="kd">throws</span> <span class="n">Exception</span> <span class="o">{</span>
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<span class="kd">final</span> <span class="n">URL</span> <span class="n">url</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="k">new</span> <span class="n">URL</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="s">"http://notmyidea.org"</span><span class="o">);</span>
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<span class="n">System</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">out</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">println</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="n">ArticleExtractor</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">INSTANCE</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">getText</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="n">url</span><span class="o">));</span>
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<span class="o">}</span>
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<span class="o">}</span>
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</pre></div>
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<p>To run it:</p>
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<div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$ </span>javac -cp dist/boilerpipe-1.1-dev.jar:lib/nekohtml-1.9.13.jar:lib/xerces-2.9.1.jar src/demo/de/l3s/boilerpipe/demo/Oneliner.java
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<span class="nv">$ </span>java -cp src/demo:dist/boilerpipe-1.1-dev.jar:lib/nekohtml-1.9.13.jar:lib/xerces-2.9.1.jar de.l3s.boilerpipe.demo.Oneliner
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</pre></div>
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<p>Yes, this is kind of ugly, sorry for your eyes.
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Let's try something similar, but from python</p>
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<div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">jpype</span>
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<span class="c"># start the JVM with the good classpaths</span>
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<span class="n">classpath</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s">"dist/boilerpipe-1.1-dev.jar:lib/nekohtml-1.9.13.jar:lib/xerces-2.9.1.jar"</span>
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<span class="n">jpype</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">startJVM</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">jpype</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">getDefaultJVMPath</span><span class="p">(),</span> <span class="s">"-Djava.class.path=</span><span class="si">%s</span><span class="s">"</span> <span class="o">%</span> <span class="n">classpath</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<span class="c"># get the Java classes we want to use</span>
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<span class="n">DefaultExtractor</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">jpype</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">JPackage</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">"de"</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">l3s</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">boilerpipe</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">extractors</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">DefaultExtractor</span>
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<span class="c"># call them !</span>
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<span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">DefaultExtractor</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">INSTANCE</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">getText</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">jpype</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">java</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">net</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">URL</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">"http://blog.notmyidea.org"</span><span class="p">))</span>
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</pre></div>
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<p>And you get what you want.</p>
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<p>I must say I didn't thought it could work so easily. This will allow me to
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extract text content from URLs and remove the <em>boilerplate</em> text easily
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for infuse (my master thesis project), without having to write java code, nice!</p>
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