[omniORB] Given an IOR how to determine the id.kind name?

[Bruce Visscher]

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Mark Johnson wrote:
> 
> If I am given an IOR how can I detemine what its fully qualified id.kind
> name is?

Short answer: You can't.

Long answer:

Supposing that you know the IOR is bound to a node in "the" CosNaming
name graph, the only way to find the IOR would be to perform a recursive
search using the CosNaming API.  Given that this would ultimately rely
on the is_equivalent method, the results would not be reliable.

IOW, you should try to avoid having to do this.  It occurs to me that
you could use a convention for the kind field that would limit the
choices.  Then you could devise a more reliable application specific
replacement for is_equivalent.  
(Assuming you really needed to do this.)

Bruce
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Bruce Visscher                                        visschb@rjrt.com

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