[omniORB] DSI and DII based proxy

[Rob Ratcliff]

Any plans to support CORBA reflection?
https://www.omg.org/spec/RFLEC/1.0/

(Like you mentioned, the IFR should meet the need for dynamic parsing as
well.)

On 3/30/2018 5:05 PM, Duncan Grisby via omniORB-list wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-03-29 at 19:59 +0000, Marcin Karkocha via omniORB-list
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all. I'm trying to achieve something like transparent (or partly
>> transparent) proxy using DSI and DII methodology. I seen articles
>> that someone do it before me but code is not available then is hard
>> to found how. I start development and stuck in moment where DII
>> client need from my site to register return type for remote call and
>> actually as it must be full transparent and not dependent of
>> client/server site I haven't knowledge about this type. When I'm
>> trying to  use types like _tc_any or _tc_TypeCode, but it say me that
>> IDLs are not compatible.
> Can you explain what exactly you are trying to do, and why?
>
> CORBA calls do not carry complete type information with them, so a
> proxy using DSI and DII, or any other mechanism for that matter, must
> know the IDL in use, either statically or dynamically from an Interface
> Repository.
>
> Duncan.
>