[omniORB] omniIDL: Inconsistent C++ interface from cross-moduletypedefs

[Stefan Näwe]

Andrew Miller wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> omniIDL appears to add an extra * to the type when you use a type from another
> module which is already a pointer type.
> 
> Example: In the module dom:
>   typedef wstring DOMString;
> 
> which results in:
>   typedef CORBA::WChar* DOMString;
> 
> In an interface within the dom module, the following attribute:
>     readonly attribute DOMString        nodeName;
> Correctly results in:
>     CORBA::WChar* nodeName();
> 
> However, if you use a similar attribute in an interface in another module, for
> example:
>     readonly attribute dom::DOMString         referrer;
> you get:
>     dom::DOMString* referrer();
> 
> However, since dom::DOMString is CORBA::WChar*, referrer now returns a pointer
> to a pointer to a CORBA::WChar, which (at least by my reading) is not correct
> according to the CORBA C++ mapping.

Hhhmmm...
If I use this IDL:

//-------------------------------------------
module dom
{
        typedef wstring DOMString;

        interface Node
        {
                readonly attribute DOMString nodeName;
        };

};

module dom2
{
        interface Node2
        {
                readonly attribute dom::DOMString referrer;
        };
};
//-------------------------------------------

This is what I get:

//-------------------------------------------
  class _objref_Node2 :
    public virtual CORBA::Object, public virtual omniObjRef
  {
  public:
    CORBA::WChar* referrer();
  ...
//-------------------------------------------

I don't see any 'pointer to pointer to CORBA::WChar'.


Stefan
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