[omniORB] Injecting Enum Name/Values into Enum's Namespace

[Luke Deller]

Hi Jeff,

What you're seeing is correct behaviour according to the Python Language
mapping ( http://www.omg.org/technology/documents/formal/python.htm ),
section 1.3.3, which begins:

        An enumeration is mapped into a number of constant objects in
        the name space where the enumeration is defined.  An application
        may only test for equivalence of two enumeration values, and not
        assume that they behave like numbers.

This behaviour is consistent with C++ enums.  I imagine that the java
language mapping differs because java packages can only contain classes
and not objects.

> Then to get the value, I have to do this:
> 
> >>> FOO.value()
> 2

This is a non-standard extension.  Strictly speaking, you shouldn't need
to convert FOO to a number.

> I am using the following options for IDL compile:
> 
> omniidl -Cstubs -nc -nf -bpython -Wbinline *.idl
> 
> Inline is the only way i can access it in an OO way, it seems. Let me 
> know where I am messed up.

I'm not quite sure what you mean about -Wbinline?

Regards,
Luke.

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