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

[Juha Muilu]

Juha Muilu wrote:
> 
> Ewan Birney wrote:
> >
> > Hmmm. This confirms my suspicisions. I would suspect a similar mess in
> > fnorb/omniorb python.
> >
> > I am all for using strings in name-value pairs. Nearly all current uses of
> > name value pairs are string-compatible (a string, a number or a float). I
> 
> Types of qualifier values. Cut out from the EMBL IDL:
> 
>         case 2: boolean applicable;
>         case 1: string  text;
>         case 3: long    integer;
>         case 4: float   real;
> 
>         case 17: type::TranslationException translation_exception;
>         case 18: type::CodonTranslation codon_translation;
>         case 19: type::AntiCodon anti_codon;
>         case 20: type::SpliceConsensus splice_consensus;
>         case 21: type::RepeatUnit repeat_unit;
>         case 22: type::DbXref db_xref;
> 
> E.g. AntiCodon, TranslationException and RepeatUnit contains location
> info which cannot be expressed properly using string. Another question
> is then how useful that info is? 

Perhaps not very usefull. Here are number of entries where they exist
using SRS:

total entries: 11169673
cons_splice:   493 
transl_except: 2920
rpt_unit:      25636



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