How to get contact normal of CharacterVirtual with function call?

[gigablox]

Have seen:

characterContactListener.OnContactSolve = (character, bodyID2, subShapeID2, contactPosition, contactNormal, contactVelocity, contactMaterial, characterVelocity, newCharacterVelocity) => {
  // Don't allow the player to slide down static not-too-steep surfaces when not actively moving and when not on a moving platform
  character = Jolt.wrapPointer(character, Jolt.CharacterVirtual);
  contactVelocity = Jolt.wrapPointer(contactVelocity, Jolt.Vec3);
  newCharacterVelocity = Jolt.wrapPointer(newCharacterVelocity, Jolt.Vec3);
  contactNormal = Jolt.wrapPointer(contactNormal, Jolt.Vec3);
  if (!allowSliding && contactVelocity.IsNearZero() && !character.IsSlopeTooSteep(contactNormal)) {
    newCharacterVelocity.SetX(0);
    newCharacterVelocity.SetY(0);
    newCharacterVelocity.SetZ(0);
  }
}

Want to know how to get contactNormal without using a CharacterContactListenerJS?

Does something like character.getContactNormal() exist? Similarly, functions to retrieve other parameter values passed in.

Ideally, I'd like to be able to extract these values (once) during each timestep in our sim.

[jrouwe]

I think you're looking for:

character.GetGroundNormal()

and before you call that you probably want to look at:

character.GetGroundState()