supports bytearray as argument for byte[]. Useful for socket/bluetooth reading (no need to read one by one)

jnius/jnius_conversion.pxi

@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ cdef void populate_args(JNIEnv *j_env, tuple definition_args, jvalue *j_args, ar
             if isinstance(py_arg, ByteArray) and argtype != '[B':
                 raise JavaException(
                     'Cannot use ByteArray for signature {}'.format(argtype))
-            if not isinstance(py_arg, (list, tuple, ByteArray)):
+            if not isinstance(py_arg, (bytearray, list, tuple, ByteArray)):
                 raise JavaException('Expecting a python list/tuple, got '
                         '{0!r}'.format(py_arg))
             j_args[index].l = convert_pyarray_to_java(

jnius/jnius_utils.pxi

@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ cdef int calculate_score(sign_args, args, is_varargs=False) except *:
                 score += 10
                 continue
 
-            if r == '[B' and isinstance(arg, ByteArray):
+            if r == '[B' and isinstance(arg, (bytearray, ByteArray)):
                 score += 10
                 continue
 

tests/test_bytearray.py

@@ -19,3 +19,11 @@ class StringArgumentForByteArrayTest(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEquals(
             arr,
             [127, 1, -127])
+
+    def test_create_bytearray(self):
+        StringBufferInputStream = autoclass('java.io.StringBufferInputStream')
+        nis = StringBufferInputStream("Hello world")
+        barr = bytearray("\x00" * 5)
+        self.assertEquals(nis.read(barr, 0, 5), 5)
+        self.assertEquals(barr, "Hello")
+