[Biocorba-l] report on Anys in CORBA::ORBit

[Philip Lijnzaad]

Martin> But we still do not know if the problem is in Orbit itself or in
Martin> CORBA::ORBit. 

It turns out the the C-language mapping for any's is simply incomplete: there
is no portable way to assign a value to an any._value (there are no insertion
operators like in C++ and Java), and I don't know how ORBit expects these
assignments to be made.  The issue is known, and (half) resolved at the OMG.
(ftp://ftp.omg.org/pub/docs/ptc/00-05-10.pdf)

I don't know if this will solve the problem, but at least it shows that anys
are a dark corner for C.

Martin> Philip is testing now a pure ORBit client (in C) to
Martin> find the answer for that.

This will have to wait ... if only because there is no piece of documentation
on ORBit and anys, unfortunately (any pointers to e.g. examples: please let
me know). Cheers,
                                                                      Philip
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