Re: Querying oaf of the interfaces a component implements ?

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com> writes:

> Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > is there any way to ask OAF which interfaces some components
> > implement (if you have the OAFIID) without activating the
> > component ?
> > 
> 
> Yes. Do a query for "iid = 'OAFIID:foo:bar'" and you will get back an
> OAF_ServerInfoList, which is an array of OAF_ServerInfo. OAF has some
> calls to get at the values in a ServerInfo struct. Of course, the
> accuracy of this information depends on the component author filling
> out the repo_ids attribute accurately and including all the interfaces
> the component implements. I've seen cases out there where this is not
> done (for example the oafinfo files for a number of Evolution shell
> components are missing at least "IDL:Bonobo/Unknown:1.0").

Thanks.

This even worked with

        "iid = 'OAFIID:foo:bar' AND repo_ids.have('IDL:/Bonobo/Control:1.0')"

to to exactly what I wanted to know :-)

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