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

[Philip Lijnzaad]

On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 15:25:11 +0100 (BST), 
"Ewan" == Ewan Birney <birney@ebi.ac.uk> wrote:

Ewan> Hmmm. This confirms my suspicisions. I would suspect a similar mess in
Ewan> fnorb/omniorb python.

Apparently  omniorb python 'works better' (more stable, more features, I
don't know) than PyORBit. E.g., in contrast to perl-orbit, omniPy has
extensive documentation on anys. ORBit appears stronger on DynAnys.

Ewan> I am all for using strings in name-value pairs. Nearly all current uses of
Ewan> name value pairs are string-compatible (a string, a number or a float). 

Ewan> anys just make life difficult and annoying. My 2p.

It's just that ORBit doesn't do anys too well; it's not fully interoperable,
and it's not documented (although the C-language mapping isn't particularly
helpful either). But if it would work interoperably, then I think being able
to create general, preparsed foobars as

  my $any = new CORBA::Any (CORBA::TypeCode->new('IDL:module/foobar:1.0'),
                                    { foo => 'asdf', bar => 42 });

isn't so bad. 

                                                                      Philip
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