[omniORB] Any Support

[Duncan Grisby]

On Monday 20 November, Tamas Morvai wrote:

> I'd like to use Any in an idl like this:
> 
> typedef sequence<any> AnySeq;
> 
> invoke(in AnySeq parameters);
> 
> In this case, do I have to compile the idl with the -Wba
> option or not? Previously I omitted this flag and everything
> worked fine.

The -Wba option is used to generate insertion and extraction operators
for declared types. Compiling the above IDL without -Wba will work
fine, as long as you only want to send basic types. If your IDL has
something like:

  struct Foo {
    long l;
    string s;
  };

and you wish to send that in an any, you must compile the IDL with
-Wba.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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