Re: "any within struct" ORBit decoding problem

[Philip Lijnzaad <lijnzaad ebi ac uk>]

This has been a while ago, so I include the whole mail. The question is, has
anything changed in the mean time? We have a very similar setup, and are
trying to send a 

    struct Property {
	string property_name;
	any property_value;
    };

to a Java server (using ORBacus 4.0.5). Plain anys (i.e. not as part of a
struct) appear to work fine, both as clients/servers and sending/receiving.
However anys as part of a struct just don't get marshalled (although we don't
get a failed assertion). 

I haven't seen a follow-up to this mail; has this (IMHO serious) problem been
solved in the mean time? Should I get the latest ORBit snapshot from CVS ? 

'any' help appreciated !-)
                                                                      Philip 

PS: I have so failed to find any examples on how to work with anys in ORBit;
    any pointers (sorry about the pun again) would be very welcome. 

> Hi,
> I'm working on a system that has ACE/TAO servers with perl clients and want
> to move the clients from COPE to ORBit.

> I've found that decoding:

> struct TestStruct1 {
>     short sh1;
>     any an1;
> };

> causes no problems for COPE::CORBA but causes libORBit.so [an orbit library
> that perl loads] to crash with:

> "** ERROR **: file orbit_typecode.c: line 307 (tc_dec): assertion failed:
> (kind<CORBA_tk_last) aborting..."

> I'm using ORBit 0.5.7, perl 5.005_03, CORBA::ORBit 0.4.3, TAO 1.1.10 and
> COPE::CORBA 0.05_51 [plus patches] on RedHat Linux 2.2.14-6.1.1smp.  Please
> note that in the system I'm working on, anys within structs are widespread
> and reverting to an alternative data structure isn't really viable.

> I can supply code for a simple TAO C++ server & perl CORBA::ORBit client
> that implement passing the above structure.  Help would be vastly
> appreciated!

> Peter.

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