[omniORB] Int. rep ID portability

[Duncan Grisby]

On Tuesday 5 December, "Renzo Tomaselli" wrote:

>         I'm using throughout my code Intf. rep. ID as generated by
> OmniIDL(2) compilers. So for an interface Foo in a module Bar, I use
> Bar_Foo_IntfRepoID as a constant string.
> Now I'm not quite sure anymore how much this is portable, indeed I could not
> find any syntax reference in Corba 2.3 specs for such names.

The Bar_Foo_IntfRepoID is omniORB 2 specific. It no longer exists in
omniORB 3, let alone other ORBs.

> An alternative and portable approach should be (as I must do in python)
> through Bar::_tc_Foo::id().

Yes, that is the portable way to do it.

For Python, it is not portable to use Bar._tc_Foo, since the _tc
TypeCodes are not part of the standard. You can get the repository id
for a type with CORBA.id(Bar.Foo), and the TypeCode with
CORBA.TypeCode(repoid).

Cheers,

Duncan.

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