[omniORB] Problems with Sequences and Anys

[David Riddoch]

Marcus,


Did you specify the -a option when you invoked omniidl2 ?


David



On Mon, 17 May 1999, Marcus Portmann wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am currently in the process of porting a fairly large CORBA based
> application from OOC's orbacus to omniorb.
> Unfortunately IDL the following IDL code is causing me
> quite a problem. Im not sure whether it is orbacus's non standard
> implementation that let this work before or whether omniorb does not
> support this functionality
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------>
> 
> struct Command
> {
>    string id;          
>    long version;     
>    string description;   
>    unsigned long scheduledTime; 
>    long currentTask;    
>    any   dataSeq;               
>    any   taskSeq;           
>    any   eventSeq;             
> };
> 
> struct CommandData     
> {
>    string key;      
>    any value;                  
> };
> 
> struct CommandTask
> {
>    unsigned long id;        
>    string dn;                 
>    string clientDn;        
>    string targetDn;    
>    string description;         
>    long timeout;               
>    long reschedulePolicy;       
>    string action;      
>    long retries;          
>    long maxRetries;       
>    long status;            
> };
> 
> 
> 
> struct CommandEvent
> {
>    long id;                // Event ID
>    long timestamp;              // Time Stamp
>    long type;                   // Event Type, defined in CommandHelper.h
>    string description;          // Event description 
>    unsigned long taskId;        // The task resulting in the generation of
> this event
> };
> 
> 
> typedef sequence <CommandData> CommandDataSeq;
> typedef sequence <CommandTask> CommandTaskSeq;
> typedef sequence <CommandEvent> CommandEventSeq;
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------->
> 
> when using the code:
> 
>    Command cs;
>    CommandDataSeq  dataSeq;                                                                    
> 
> 
>    cs.dataSeq  <<= dataSeq;                 
> 
> 
> When trying to compile this i get the following error message:
> 
> CommandHelper.cpp:63: no match for `::CORBA::Any & <<= CommandDataSeq &'
> 
> Is it possible to insert sequences of user defined types into an Any with
> omni orb?
> 
> 
> Thank you for your time.
> 
> -- marcus
> 
> 
> Marcus Portmann
> 
> 
> 
>