Re: Querying oaf of the interfaces a component implements ?

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On 15 Oct 2000, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:

> 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").

The theory behind this is that repo_ids is not an exhaustive list, but a
list of "interesting" interfaces that one would care to activate by. There
would not be any useful purpose served by activating by the
IDL:Bonobo/Unknown:1.0 repo ID, so it is left out of the list.

-- Elliot
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