Re: Getting the iid of a component for activation?

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On 1 Dec 2000, Martin Baulig wrote:

> You seem to misunderstand what OAF is aimed for; if I remember correctly, one
> reason for the gnorba->OAF migration was the fact that OAF supports queries
> so that you do not have to hardcode anything (btw. if I remember correctly,
> the other big reason was that OAF supports UUIDs so that we won't get any
> namespace clashes ;-))

You can use any string you want for a GOAD ID (including UUIDs), and
almost any string you want for an OAF IID (the constraint being the
"OAFIID:" prefix and not using the [], characters).

> With OAF, you query for the _capability_ or a component and _not_ for its name.
>
> So IMHO the correct thing to add an attribute to gnomine's oafinfo file and then
> to do an oaf_query() for this attribute.

<rant>Or do oaf_activate(), not oaf_query().</rant>

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