Re: About PropertyBag and Properties.

[Dietmar Maurer <dietmar maurer-it com>]

Dietmar Maurer wrote:

> Miguel de Icaza wrote:
>
> > > Why is bonobo-property-bag-xml.c not compiled by default?
> >
> > It was a simple attempt to write property streaming, but it is not
> > really complete.  The work that Michael has been doing in ORBit is
> > precisely to solve this problem correcly: to be able to manipulate
> > CORBA::any values instead of supporting the small subset we support
> > now.
>
> I wonder how it is possible to load/store CORBA::any values. How do you
> solve the little/big endian problem. Please can you give me a hint (I
> thought
> CORBA::any means that I cant determine what is exactly contained?).

Ok, thought over - I know that the ORB has a representation of each
CORBA::any
value which we can load/store (network order). But this solution is highly
ORBit
dependent - or is there anything in the CORBA standard related to this
problem?

- Dietmar