I'm trying to use usb4java (low-level API) to communicate with a USB-connected scientific instrument set up as an HID device on Windows (both x86 and x86_64). There is a very old C++ application for it that works fine, but I'm trying to replace it with pure Java for a variety of reasons.
I can get device descriptors and determine the interface/endpoint, but asynchronous transfers never happen (checked by Device Monitoring Studio) and the callbacks are never called. No exceptions are thrown by usb4java and don't know if I can access any logs at the level of libusb (if it's even possible). I'm a complete novice in dealing with hardware, so it may well be something really basic that I'm missing.
There is only one endpoint and I'm not sure how the C++ code managed a bidirectional communication. There is no explicit mention of transfer types in the code, since all the details are buried in a third party library.
I installed the libusbK driver and I did try the high-level implementation (javax-usb). Transfers still don't get through.
Below is the output from the endpoint descriptor dump, as well as the abbreviated version of the code.
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN
bmAttributes 3
Transfer Type Interrupt
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 8
bInterval 100
extralen 0
extra:
Here's the code:
import java.nio.*;
import java.util.*;
import org.usb4java.*;
/**
* This class is intended to test USB communication using usb4java
*
*/
public class Test {
private static final String vendorId = "VVV";
private static final String productId = "PPP";
private Context context;
private Device device;
private Handle handle;
static volatile boolean exit = false;
Object synchObj = new Object();
boolean readCompleted = false;
private static final int BUFFER_SIZE = 8;
private final byte[] idQuery = new byte[]{ 0x1d, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0 };
public Test(){
initialize();
if (device == null){
System.out.println("No target devices found");
System.exit(0);
}
boolean loop = true;
//claim interface 0
int result = LibUsb.claimInterface(handle, 0);
if (result != LibUsb.SUCCESS) throw new LibUsbException("Unable to claim interface", result);
//this code doesn't get executed because the transfer never completes correctly
final TransferCallback readCallback = new TransferCallback(){
public void processTransfer(Transfer transfer){
System.out.println(transfer.actualLength() + " bytes sent");
//read the response here
synchronized (synchObj){
readCompleted = true;
synchObj.notify();
}
}
};
//initial request writing the device identification query
write(handle, idQuery, readCallback);
//waiting for the write/response to complete
while (loop){
synchronized (synchObj){
while (!readCompleted){
try{
synchObj.wait();
}
catch (InterruptedException ex){
ex.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
readCompleted = false;
loop = false;
System.out.println("Completed reading");
}
result = LibUsb.releaseInterface(handle, 0);
LibUsb.close(handle);
}
private void initialize(){
try{
context = new Context();
int result = LibUsb.init(context);
if (result != LibUsb.SUCCESS) throw new LibUsbException("Unable to initialize libusb.", result);
DeviceList deviceList = new DeviceList();
result = LibUsb.getDeviceList(context, deviceList);
if (result < 0) throw new LibUsbException("Unable to get device list.", result);
for (int i = 0; i < deviceList.getSize(); i++){
Device dev = deviceList.get(i);
DeviceHandle h = new DeviceHandle();
int res = LibUsb.open(dev, h);
if (res != LibUsb.SUCCESS) continue;
DeviceDescriptor descriptor = new DeviceDescriptor();
result = LibUsb.getDeviceDescriptor(dev, descriptor);
if (result != LibUsb.SUCCESS) throw new LibUsbException("Unable to read device descriptor", result);
String dump = descriptor.dump(h);
if (dump.indexOf("PPP") > -1){
device = dev;
handle = h;
System.out.println("Found target device");
break;
}
}
}
catch (Exception ex){
ex.printStackTrace();
}
}
public static void write(DeviceHandle handle, byte[] data, TransferCallback callback){
ByteBuffer buffer = BufferUtils.allocateByteBuffer(data.length);
buffer.put(data);
Transfer transfer = LibUsb.allocTransfer();
LibUsb.fillInterruptTransfer(transfer, handle, (byte)0x81, buffer, callback, null, 1000);
System.out.println("Sending " + data.length + " bytes to device");
int result = LibUsb.submitTransfer(transfer);
if (result != LibUsb.SUCCESS) throw new LibUsbException("Unable to submit transfer", result);
}
public static void main(String[] args){
Test app = new Test();
}
}
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
