Message12434

This should already be possible in Jython. There is an overloaded version of jarray.array() which takes a java.lang.Class object instead of a string description. As arrays are first class objects in Java, once you obtain the class object, you can pass that to create a 2D array of the appropriate type. It helps to know that "[I" is the name of the class for int[] (ie an array of int). See 10.8 here:

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se7/html/jls-10.html
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/array-primitive-type-object-java/

Example using jython console

 
Jython 2.7.2a1+ (, Apr. 11 2019, 17:41:34)
[OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (Oracle Corporation)] on java11.0.1
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>>> from java.lang import Class
>>> import jarray
>>>
>>> ci = Class.forName('[I')
>>> jarray.array([[1],[2]],ci)
array([I, [array('i', [1]), array('i', [2])])
>>>
>>> cf = Class.forName('[F')
>>> jarray.array([[1.0,1.0],[2.0,2.0]],cf)
array([F, [array('f', [1.0, 1.0]), array('f', [2.0, 2.0])])
>>>