Storing MATLAB structs in Java objects

h = java.util.HashMap;

h.put(5, 'test');

h.put(7, magic(4));

h=java.util.HashMap;
st.val = 7;
h.put(7, st);

??? No method 'put' with matching signature found for class 'java.util.HashMap'.

function hmap = struct2hashmap(S)
if ((~isstruct(S)) || (numel(S) ~= 1))
    error('struct2hashmap:invalid','%s',...
          'struct2hashmap only accepts single structures');
end

hmap = java.util.HashMap;
for fn = fieldnames(S)'
    % fn iterates through the field names of S
    % fn is a 1x1 cell array
    fn = fn{1};
    hmap.put(fn,getfield(S,fn));
end

>> M = java.util.HashMap;
>> M.put(1,'a');
>> M.put(2,33);
>> s = struct('a',37,'b',4,'c','bingo')

s =

    a: 37
    b: 4
    c: 'bingo'

>> M.put(3,struct2hashmap(s));
>> M

M =

{3.0={a=37.0, c=bingo, b=4.0}, 1.0=a, 2.0=33.0}

>>

% Must initialize with a dummy value to allow numeric keys
m = containers.Map(0, 0, 'uniformValues',false);
% Remove dummy entry
m.remove(0);

m(5) = 'test';
m(7) = magic(4);
m(9) = struct('foo',42, 'bar',1:3);
m(5), m(7), m(9) % get values back out

h = java.util.HashMap;
carr = {7, 'hello'};
h.put(7, carr);

% OR

h = java.util.HashMap;
st.val = 7;
h.put(7, struct2cell(st));